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Gastric cancer
• Bleeding from gastric cancer = melena, hematemesis causing
anemia
• RT alone 1 x 8 Gy or 5 x 4 Gy,
improvements in 50-73%
of patients:
increase Hb, decrease number of transfusions
(Chaw C ecancer, 2014)
• The pooled overall response rates for
bleeding, pain and obstruction
symptoms were
74%, 67% and 68%
(meta-analysis Tey J,Ocotarget 2017)
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