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Adjuvant chemotherapy after D2 gastrectomy for gastric cancer

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In the CLASSIC study, capecitabine–oxaliplatin was an effective chemotherapy after D2 gastrectomy for stage II–IIIB gastric cancer. We compared these data with the ACTS-GC study, which was the only pivotal study proving the benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in these patients. Long-term survival data from CLASSIC are awaited with interest.boxed-text

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  • 15 March 2012

    In the version of this article initially published online the data for survival in the ACTS-GC trial were incorrect in Table 1. The 3-year RFS should be 72.2% vs 59.6% and the 3-year OS should be 80.1% vs 70.1%. The error has been corrected for the print, HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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  1. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, 1-1-2 Nakao, Asahi-Ku, 241-0815, Yokohama, Japan

    Takaki Yoshikawa

  2. Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1 Mukogawa-Cho, Nishinomiya, 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan

    Mitsuru Sasako

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M. Sasako is a consultant for and receives honoraria and grant support from Chugai Pharmaceuticals and Taiho Pharmaceuticals. M. Sasako also receives honoraria and grant support from Sanofi-Aventis. T. Yoshikawa declares no competing interests.

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Yoshikawa, T., Sasako, M. Adjuvant chemotherapy after D2 gastrectomy for gastric cancer. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 9, 192–194 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrclinonc.2012.23

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