Gastric Cancer Surgery - Stomach Stump Extirpation

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Gastric cancer is the fifth most commonly diagnosed and third most fatal cancer. Annually 1 000 000 new cases and 740 000 deaths are reported. It predominantly occurs in males in their 6th to 8th decade of life. Surgery is the only known way to cure the patient. In this video there is a case of patient with the relapse of gastric cancer presented. The previous surgery had been performed a year earlier and it turned out not sufficient.

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