Early gastric cancer recurrence after endoscopic submucosal dissection: Not to be ignored!

Yan Zeng; Jian Yang; Jun-Wen Zhang

doi:10.4251/wjgo.v16.i1.8

Early gastric cancer recurrence after endoscopic submucosal dissection: Not to be ignored!

World J Gastrointest Oncol. 2024 Jan 15;16(1):8-12. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v16.i1.8.

Authors

Yan Zeng¹, Jian Yang^{2

3}, Jun-Wen Zhang⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China.
² Department of Gastroenterology, Changdu People's Hospital of Xizang, Changdu 854000, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
³ Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China. yangjian@hospital.cqmu.edu.cn.
⁴ Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.

Abstract

This editorial comments on the article "Efficacy of multi-slice spiral computed tomography in evaluating gastric cancer recurrence after endoscopic submucosal dissection". We focus on the importance of paying more attention to post-endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) gastric cancer recurrence in patients with early gastric cancer (EGC) and how to manage it effectively. ESD has been a well-known treatment and the mainstay for EGC, with the advantages of less invasion and fewer complications when compared with traditional surgical procedures. Despite a lower local recurrence rate after ESD, the problem of postoperative recurrence in patients with EGC has become increasingly non-ignorable with the global popularization of ESD technology and the increasing number of post-ESD patients.

Keywords: Early gastric cancer; Endoscopic submucosal dissection; Postoperative; Prediction; Recurrence.

Publication types

Editorial