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    Randomized controlled phase III trial to investigate superiority of robot-assisted gastrectomy over laparoscopic gastrectomy for clinical stage T1-4aN0-3 gastric cancer patients (JCOG1907, MONA LISA study): a study protocol

    Laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG) is considered a standard treatment for clinical stage I gastric cancer. Nevertheless, LG has some drawbacks, such as motion restriction and difficulties in spatial perception. Rob...

    Rie Makuuchi, Masanori Terashima, Mitsumi Terada, Junki Mizusawa in BMC Cancer (2023)

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    The effect of specimen processing time on HER2 expression in gastric cancer and esophagogastric junction cancer: a single-center retrospective observational study

    Recent developments in the field of companion diagnosis and molecular-targeting therapeutic agents have helped in develo** treatments targeting human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) in gastric canc...

    Yoshitomo Yanagimoto, Hiroshi Imamura, Shiro Adachi, Kazuki Odagiri in BMC Cancer (2023)

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    Improvement of cisplatin-related renal dysfunction by synthetic ghrelin: a prospective randomised phase II trial

    Ghrelin, a 28-amino acid peptide predominantly produced by the stomach, exerts powerful renal protective effects by increasing levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). The aim of this study was to evalu...

    Yoshitomo Yanagimoto, Shuji Takiguchi, Yasuhiro Miyazaki in British Journal of Cancer (2016)