%0 Journal Article
%T Palliative gastrectomy plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for incurable advanced gastric cancer: a meta-analysis
%A Bin Ma
%A Huimian Xu
%A Pei Wu
%A Pengliang Wang
%A Songcheng Yin
%A Wenbin Hou
%A Yuen Tan
%A Zhenning Wang
%A Zhi Zhu
%J Archive of "Cancer Management and Research".
%D 2018
%R 10.2147/CMAR.S179368
%X Whether palliative gastrectomy combined with chemotherapy can improve the survival of patients with advanced gastric cancer remains controversial. We performed a meta-analysis to clarify whether palliative gastrectomy plus chemotherapy can benefit patients with incurable advanced gastric cancer and to explore the best candidates in this patient population
%K advanced gastric cancer
%K palliative gastrectomy
%K chemotherapy
%K survival
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6208494/