Review Article

How to Decide Approaches and Procedures for Early and Advanced Gastric Cancer?

Table 1

Multicenter prospective trials for minimal-invasive gastric cancer surgery.

TrialsMain outcomesAuthorsYear

JCOG0703Safety of LADG.Kurokawa et al.2008
JCOG0912Noninferiority of LADG to ODG regarding survival outcomes for early gastric cancer.Katai et al.2019
KLASS-01Noninferiority of LADG to ODG regarding survival outcomes for early gastric cancer.Kim et al.2019
JCOG1401Safety of LATG and LAPG.Katai et al.2019
KLASS-02Noninferiority of LADG to ODG regarding safety and survival outcomes for advanced gastric cancer.Lee and hyung et al.2019 and 2020
CLASS-01Noninferiority of LADG to ODG regarding safety and survival outcomes for advanced gastric cancer.Yu and huang et al.2019 and 2022
JLSSG0901Noninferiority of LADG to ODG regarding safety and survival outcomes for advanced gastric cancer.Ongoing
KLASS-06Noninferiority of LATG to OTG regarding safety and survival outcomes for advanced gastric cancer
JCOG1907Superiority of RAG to LAG regarding safety and survival outcomes for T1-2N0-2 gastric cancer.Ongoing
CLASS-03aSafety of LAG after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.Ongoing

LADG, laparoscopic distal gastrectomy. ODG, open distal gastrectomy. LATG, laparoscopic total gastrectomy. LAPG, laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy. OTG, open total gastrectomy. RAG, robot-assisted gastrectomy. LAG, laparoscopic gastrectomy.