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Although the MAGIC and FNCLCC/FFCD trials showed that preoperative chemotherapy
was effective for locally advanced gastric cancer,
whether perioperative chemotherapy
is effective when combined with D2 dissection is unclear
D2 gastrectomy was performed in
only 42.5%
of the patients in the perioperative
chemotherapy arm in the
MAGIC trial
and the extent of dissection was
not described in
the FNCLCC/FFCD trial
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