| A new study suggests that stomach cancer | | | | of Medicine. It also shrank tumors and improved |
| patients will live longer if they get chemotherapy | | | | survival without a return of cancer. |
| before and after surgery. | | | | Lead by Dr. David Cuningham of Royal Marsden |
| British researchers found that chemo cut the risk | | | | Hospital in Sutton and London, researchers |
| of death by 25 percent compared to just surgery | | | | examined 503 patients. Doctors gave the patients |
| alone | | | | with operable stomach cancer chemotherapy both |
| It also improved the rate of survival and cut the | | | | before and after surgery. |
| risk of the cancer returning. | | | | 'Clinicians can have confidence in the solid evidence |
| Currently the standard treatment for stomach | | | | that peri-operative therapy improves the |
| cancer is surgery, were all or part of the stomach | | | | outcome for patients with respectable gastric |
| is removed. If caught early, chance of survival | | | | cancer,' Cuningham told United Press International. |
| increases significantly. | | | | He also said the trial was well-designed and |
| Chemo cut the risk of death by a quarter | | | | well-executed and had enough patients to show |
| compared to surgery alone, according to the | | | | that the results did not appear to occur by |
| study published in Thursday's New England Journal | | | | chance. |