Erschienen in:
28.02.2021 | Letter to the Editor
Gastric Cancer After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: a Case Report and Literature Review
verfasst von:
Matías Orellana, Pedro Soto, Alejandro Brañes, Fernando Pimentel, Rodrigo Muñoz
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 6/2021
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Excerpt
The number of bariatric surgeries performed worldwide over the last decades has increased. After surgery, patients experience significant weight loss, improvement, and/or remission of several obesity-associated diseases [
1,
2]. Due to the effect on several obesity-associated risk factors for cancer, bariatric surgery reduces the incidence of various types of hormone-dependent tumors such as breast, endometrial, and colon cancer [
3]. Concerning upper gastrointestinal cancers, obesity has been associated with esophageal and adenocarcinoma of gastric cardia [
4,
5]. These tumors are particularly relevant in our country since Chile has an intermediate risk for gastric cancer (GC) development, as shown by an age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) of GC mortality of 10–20/100.000 inhabitants [
6]. Accordingly, preoperative upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (UGE) has been routinely performed in patients undergoing bariatric surgery at our institution [
7]. …
