%0 Journal Article
%T The survival benefit of palliative gastrectomy and/or metastasectomy in gastric cancer patients with synchronous metastasis: a population-based study using propensity score matching and coarsened exact matching
%A Chao Ren
%A Feng Wang
%A Feng-Hua Wang
%A Lu-Ping Yang
%A Ming-Ming He
%A Rui-Hua Xu
%A Ying Jin
%A Yu-Hong Li
%A Zhi-Qiang Wang
%A Zi-Xian Wang
%J Journal of Cancer
%D 2019
%I Ivyspring International Publisher
%R 10.7150/jca.28842
%X Introduction: Palliative surgeries were controversial for asymptomatic metastatic gastric cancer (mGC) patients. This study was aimed to evaluate survival benefit of palliative surgeries to gastric and/or metastatic tumors in mGC patients based on U.S population.
%K gastric cancer
%K gastrectomy
%K metastasectomy
%K survival
%K matching
%U http://www.jcancer.org/v10p0602.htm