Yeungnam Univ J Med.  1988 Jun;5(1):153-158. 10.12701/yujm.1988.5.1.153.

Intraoperative Radiation Therapy of locally Advanced Gastric Cancers: Case report

• Kim KA
• Kim SK
• Shin SO
• Kim MS
• Kim HJ
• Kwun KB
• Kim HD

• KMID: 2376534
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12701/yujm.1988.5.1.153

Abstract

Stomach cancer is the most popular tumor in Korea but the prognosis following extensive surgery and chemotherapy has not improved for many years. Conventional external radiotherapy also has some limitation, namely, a cancerocidal dose cannot be delivered to tumors because of low radiation tolerance of adjacent critical sensitive organs. In order to overcome these limitations of curative surgery and external radiotherapy, intraoperative radiotherapy was proposed in many centers and the results were excellent. We treated two cases of locally advanced gastric cancers with IORT by using NEC 18 MeV Linear Accelerator after standard subtotal resection of the stomach. After treatment, the patients are in good conditions so far, but in order to evaluate the effectiveness of IORT, a study will be performed on the survival rates between patients treated by IORT and those treated by surgery alone.

MeSH Terms

Drug Therapy
Humans
Korea
Particle Accelerators
Prognosis
Radiation Tolerance
Radiotherapy
Stomach
Stomach Neoplasms*
Survival Rate