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The book Gastric Cancer: diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer

Lucine M. Gao

Editorial Office, Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology, AME Publishing Company, Guangzhou, China Correspondence to: Lucine M. Gao, Science Editor. Editorial Office, Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology, AME Publishing Company, Guangzhou, China. Email: [email protected].

Received: 13 June 2016; Accepted: 13 June 2016; Published: 28 June 2016. doi: 10.21037/tgh.2016.06.04 View this article at: http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/tgh.2016.06.04

We are glad to announce that the book Gastric Cancer (Figure 1) has been officially published by the AME Publishing Company in 2015. Although gastric cancer mortality has declined markedly around the world, it remains a worldwide public health problem especially in Asia. The diagnosis and management of gastric cancer has gradually improved over the past decades. Early diagnosis and treatment is believed to be the key to improve the prognosis of gastric cancer. This new book, Gastric Cancer, is committed to make clinicians and researchers gain a better understanding and treating of gastric cancer. It is comprised of eight sections including diagnosis, multidisciplinary approach, surgical research, surgical video, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, radiation therapy and translational research of gastric cancer. Most notably, those 35 surgical video articles surely will provide the readers a more lively reading experience. Our Editor-in-Chief for Gastric Cancer is Prof. Jiafu Ji from Peking University School of Oncology & Beijing

Cancer Hospital. The Associate Editor-in-Chief are Prof. Figure 1 The book Gastric Cancer was published by the AME Hyung-Ho Kim from Seoul National University and Prof. Publishing Company. Guy D. Eslick from The Sydney Medical School Nepean. The Assistant Editor is Prof. Sang-Hoon Ahn from Seoul National University. provides up-to-date knowledge and advanced techniques The book rounds up 287 internationally recognized in the areas of gastric cancer to clinicians and researchers. leaders who come from 15 different countries to provide We hope that the readers will find this edition as valuable to readers with structured information in the fascinating and their diagnostic approaches and treatment modalities. challenging field of gastric cancer (Figure 2). For more The book Gastric Cancer is now available both online and information about the authors, please see the Appendix 1. in print with English (Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/ Owing to the joint effort of all the contributors, this book dp/9881299764) and Chinese version.

Jun-Te Hsu, Ta-Sen Yeh, Yi-Yin Jan  Diagnosis 20 Gastric cancer: classification, histology and application of molecular pathology Bing Hu, Nassim El Hajj, Scott Sittler, Nancy Lammert, Robert Barnes, Aurelia Meloni-Ehrig 31 FDG PET imaging in the staging and management of gastric cancer Shane Hopkins, Gary Y. Yang 37 Lymph node staging in gastric remnant carcinoma Bing Hu 39 The role of 18FDG-PET in gastric cancer China USA Japan Italy Korea Turkey India Australia Brazil UK Luigina Graziosi, Luca Pio Evoli, Emanuel Cavazzoni, Singapore Spain France Germany Greece Annibale Donini 42 Aberrant DNA methylation as sensitive and Figure 2 Distribution of all authors in the book Gastric Cancer. promising biomarkers in diagnosing of cancers Tomomitsu Tahara, Tomiyasu Arisawa, Tomoyuki Shibata, Naoki Ohmiya, Ichiro Hirata Table of content of the book can be found as below: 45 Adenocarcinoma of esophagogastric junction requires a clearer definition Table of Contents Aiwen Wu, Jiafu Ji  Foreword  Multidisciplinary Approach i Yan Sun 50 Updating advances and controversies on the ii Daiming Fan multidisciplinary therapy of gastric cancer  Preface Fei Shan, Jiafu Ji i Zhaode Bu, Jiafu Ji 60 Multidisciplinary approach for the treatment of ii Guy D. Eslick gastric cancer  Acknowledgement Yutaka Yonemura, Emel Canbay, Haruaki Ishibashi, i Jiafu Ji Sachio Fushida  Editorial 63 Gastric metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare 1 Multidisciplinary approach for the treatment of cause of gastrointestinal bleeding: case report and gastric cancer review of the literature Yixing Jiang Malav P. Parikh, Salih Samo, Venu Ganipisetti, Sathish 4 A current view of gastric cancer in China Krishnan, Maulik Dhandha, Margaret Yungbluth, Zhaode Bu, Jiafu Ji Walter R. Glaws 8 Management of gastric cancer: the Chinese 68 Self-expandable metallic stent placement for perspective palliation in gastric outlet obstruction Hiu Yan Wong, Thomas Yau Iruru Maetani 13 The first step on earth: a small step for a trial, a  Surgical Research giant leap for mankind 79 Training as a surgeon: not just knowledge and skills Gun Min Kim, Hyun Cheol Chung Jiafu Ji 15 Can the ARTISTs complete the Schubert 81 Single-incision laparoscopic distal gastrectomy for Unfinished (Sinfonie Nr. 7 in h moll D. 759 “Die early gastric cancer Unvollendete”)? Sang-Hoon Ahn, Do Joong Park, Hyung-Ho Kim Taroh Satoh, Hideshi Ishii, Daisuke Sakai, Yuichiro 85 Mid-term results after single incision transumbilical Doki, Masaki Mori laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy 17 Treatment strategies in node-negative gastric Ayham Ghinagow, Kirubakaran Malapan, Andrea cancer Ooi Se, Anirudh Vij, Po-Chih Chang, Xiao-Yan Chen,

Chih-Kun Huang gastrojejunostomy for malignant gastric outlet 91 Laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy following obstruction-a systematic review and meta-analysis neoadjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric of randomized and non-randomized trials cancer - strategies for development Vinayak Nagaraja, Guy D. Eslick, Michael R. Cox Takaki Yoshikawa, Takashi Oshima, Yasushi Rino,  Surgical Video Munetaka Masuda 140 Intracorporeal laparoscopic esophagojejunostomy 98 Laparoscopic D2 dissection for locally advanced using endoscopic linear staplers: the experiences of gastric cancer in China 293 cases Ziyu Li, Jiafu Ji Byung Sik Kim, Hee Sung Kim 100 Perfect-results after laparoscopic surgery for 144 Reducing the number of abdominal ports used gastroesophageal reflux - are they achievable? for laparoscopic distal gastrectomy using the David I. Watson “MiniLap” grasper 106 Future perspective of laparoscopic surgery for Oh Jeong, Mi Ran Jung, Seong Yeop Ryu, Young Kyu gastric cancer: sentinel node navigation function- Park preserving surgery for early gastric cancer 146 Functional end-to end esophago-jejunal Keun Won Ryu, SENORITA (Sentinel Node Oriented anastomosis using linear staplers following Tailored Approach) Study Group laparoscopic total gastrectomy 110 Rationale of oncological follow-up after Hiroshi Okabe, Kazutaka Obama, Eiji Tanaka, Shigeru gastrectomy for cancer—the Consensus Conference Tsunoda, Shigeo Hisamori, Yoshiharu Sakai Domenico D’Ugo, Gian Luca Baiocchi 148 Laparoscopic total gastrectomy with spleen- 112 Laparoscopic total gastrectomy with spleen-preserving preserving splenic hilar (No. 10) lymph nodes splenic hilar (No. 10) lymph node dissection for gastric dissection cancer is still a challenging procedure Guoxin Li, Tingyu Mou, Yanfeng Hu, Jiang Yu, Hao Hoon Hur Liu, Yanan Wang 114 Totally laparoscopic stapled anastomosis after distal 151 Standard lymph node dissection (D2 surgery) for gastrectomy antral carcinoma Tim Bright, David I. Watson Han Liang 116 Safe, simple & efficient totally laparoscopic Billroth 154 Laparoscopic spleen-preserving splenic hilar lymph II gastrectomy by only stapling devices node dissection for proximal gastric cancer Kirubakaran Malapan, Chih-Kun Huang Chang-Ming Huang, Chao-Hui Zheng, Ping Li, Jian- 120 What is the best reconstruction after totally Wei Xie, Jia-Bin Wang, Jian-Xian Lin, Jun Lu laparoscopic distal gastrectomy if the delta-shaped 156 Radical proximal gastrectomy with modified double gastroduodenostomy cannot be performed? tracks anastomosis after preoperative chemotherapy Sang-Hoon Ahn, Hyung-Ho Kim for gastric cancer 122 Node-negative gastric cancer: a good occasion for Yong Li, Qun Zhao, Liqiao Fan, Dong Wang, Nan Jia, studying new prognostic factors Yuan Tian Gian Luca Baiocchi, Guido Alberto Massimo Tiberio, 159 Totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy Nazario Portolani, Arianna Coniglio, Stefano Maria reconstructed by Rouxen-Y with D2 Giulini lymphadenectomy and needle catheter jejunostomy 124 Completely laparoscopic reconstruction following for gastric cancer distal gastrectomy: what is the best method? Xin Ye, Jian-Chun Yu, Wei-Ming Kang, Zhi-Qiang Hiroshi Okabe Ma, Qing-Bin Meng 127 Emergency surgery for perforated gastric 164 Laparoscopy-assisted D2 radical distal gastrectomy malignancy: an institution’s experience and review Peng Xia, Dong-Min Chang, Yong-Chun Song, Lei of the literature Meng, Wen-Han Li, Cheng-Xue Dang Ker-Kan Tan, Terence Jin-Lin Quek, Ningyan Wong, 166 Laparoscopic assistant distal radical gastrectomy Kelvin Kaiwen Li, Khong-Hee Lim Kuan Wang, Yuzhe Wei, Hailei Wang, Yingwei Xue 133 Endoscopic stenting versus operative 168 D2 distal subtotal gastrectomy for antral carcinoma

Hai-Bin Song, Xiao-Peng Cai, Bing Xiong 235 Total laparoscopic-assisted radical gastrectomy 171 Laparoscopy-assisted radical total gastrectomy plus (D2+) with jejunal Roux-en-Y reconstruction D2 lymph node dissection Weidong Zang, Wenju Liu, Cheng Wei, Shifu Liu, Chaohui Zheng, Changming Huang, Ping Li, Jianwei Guodong Zhao Xie, Jiabin Wang, Jianxian Lin, Jun Lu 237 Pylorus- and vagus-nerve-preserving partial 177 Laparoscopy-assisted radical total gastrectomy plus gastrectomy (D2 dissection) D2 lymph node dissection/dissection of lymph Jian Zhang, Liang Cao, Zhenglin Wang, Chi Zhang, node station 16 Xiang Hu Feng Qian, Jiang Du, Ling Yuan, Ruixue Wang, Xiao 240 Laparoscopic-assisted radical gastrectomy for distal Luo, Peng Yan gastric cancer 181 A case of laparoscopy-assisted radical distal Yian Du, Xiangdong Cheng, Zhiyuan Xu, Litao Yang, gastrectomy Ling Huang, Bing Wang, Pengfei Yu, Ruizeng Dong Hongjiang Song, Yuzhe Wei, Xuefeng Yu, Yingwei Xue 243 Delta-shaped anastomosis in totally laparoscopic 184 Laparoscopy-assisted D2 gastrectomy plus D2 radical distal gastrectomy laparoscopic bursectomy in locally advanced gastric Jun Zhang cancer patients 245 Station 10 lymph node dissections in laparoscopic- Xin-Zu Chen, Jian-Kun Hu assisted spleenpreserving radical gastrectomy for 187 Radical total gastrectomy plus D2 dissection for advanced proximal gastric cancer gastric cancer Yong Li, Junjiang Wang Luchuan Chen, Shenghong Wei, Zaisheng Ye, Hui Yu 248 Radical gastrectomy for D2 distal gastric cancer 188 Radical surgery for cardia carcinoma: Ping Dong total gastrectomy, D2 + No.10 dissection, 251 Curettage and aspiration in splenic hilar lymph esophagojejunal Roux-en-Y anastomosis node dissection for spleen-preserving radical D2 Zongyou Chen, Hankun Hao, Yiming Zhou, Jianbin gastrectomy Xiang, Yantao Cai Wei Wang, Lijie Luo, Yansheng Zheng, Jin Wan 195 D2 surgery for a gastric cancer patient after 254 Laparoscopic distal gastrectomy with D2 dissection neoadjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer Guo-Li Li, Chao-Gang Fan, Xu-Lin Wang, Yang Li Jiang Yu, Yanfeng Hu, Tao Chen, Tingyu Mou, Xia 197 Laparoscopy-assisted D2 radical distal subtotal Cheng, Guoxin Li gastrectomy 257 Spleen-preserving splenic lymph node dissection in Xiaogeng Chen, Weihua Li, Jinsi Wang, Changshun radical total gastrectomy Yang Zhigang Jie, Zhengrong Li, Yi Cao, Yi Liu, Mengmeng 203 Radical proximal gastrectomy for gastric carcinoma Jiang, Liangqing Lin, Guoyang Zhang Chengwu Zhang, Wei Miao, Ning Liu, Rui Ge, Cheng 259 D2 plus radical resection combined with Wang perioperative chemotherapy for advanced gastric 207 Laparoscopic D2 dissection for gastric cancer cancer with pyloric obstruction Qinshu Shao, Xiaojun Yu, Jin Yang Yian Du, Xiangdong Cheng, Zhiyuan Xu, Litao Yang, 211 Anatomy of laparoscopy-assisted distal D2 radical Ling Huang, Bing Wang, Pengfei Yu, Ruizeng Dong gastrectomy for gastric cancer  Chemotherapy Da-Guang Wang, Liang He, Yang Zhang, Jing-Hai 262 Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for gastric cancer Yu, Yan Chen, Ming-Jie Xia, Jian Suo Kate Young, Anna Minchom, David Cunningham, Ian 218 Laparoscopic radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer Chau Xuefei Yang, Jie Chen, Ligang Xia, Kai Pan 265 Gastric cancer: toward a cisplatin-free disease? 231 Laparoscopy-assisted D2 radical distal gastrectomy Fausto Petrelli, Sandro Barni, Stefano Cascinu, Alberto for gastric cancer (Billroth II anastomosis) Zaniboni Hanhui Yao, Qiang Huang, Zhiqiang Zhu, Wei Liang 270 The role of taxanes in the management of 233 Laparoscopic gastrectomy for distal gastric cancer gastroesphageal cancer Donglei Zhou, Liesheng Lu, Xun Jiang Paola Jimenez, Aditya Pathak, Alexandria T. Phan

281 A pilot study evaluating the safety and toxicity of Heike Alhlgayer epirubicin, cisplatin, and UFT (ECU regimen) in 340 Evaluation of JWA and XRCC1 expressions in advanced gastric carcinoma gastric cancer Sezer Saglam, N. Faruk Aykan, Burak Sakar, Mine Ayse Basak Engin Gulluoglu, Emre Balik, Hasan Karanlik 344 Re: Clinical significance of SOD2 and GSTP1  Targeted Therapy gene polymorphisms in Chinese patients with 289 Targeting angiogenesis in advanced gastric cancer: gastric cancer by Xu et al. is this end of the road? Maria Gazouli Vikram K. Jain, David Cunningham 346 The usefulness of CDH1 methylation as a gastric 292 Costs of trastuzumab in combination with cancer peritoneal metastasis biomarker chemotherapy for HER2-positive advanced gastric Wallax Augusto Silva Ferreira, Danilo do Rosário or gastroesophageal junction cancer: does one Pinheiro, Symara Rodrigues-Antunes, Mariceli Baia “Analysis” fit all? Leão Barros, Bárbara do Nascimento Borges Khaldoun Almhanna, Mendel E. Singer 349 Fatal attraction: tumor recruitment of myeloid- 295 Pharmacoeconomic studies of targeted agents in derived suppressor cells is mediated by IL-17- gastric cancer: ready for prime time? producing CD8+ T cells Filippo Pietrantonio, Claudia Maggi, Filippo de Braud Chia-Rui Shen, Hsin-Wei Chen 298 A case report of trastuzumab dose in gastric cancer 353 Optimal lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer: is Chrisann Kyi, Manish A. Shah there a magic number? 302 Long-term survival in an advanced gastric cancer Thomas W. Rice, Eugene H. Blackstone patient treated with cetuximab in association with 356 Survival of metastatic gastric cancer: significance of FOLFIRI: a case report age, sex and race/ethnicity Daniela Adua, Francesca Di Fabio, Fabiola Lorena Dongyun Yang, Andrew Hendifar, Cosima Lenz, Kayo Rojas Llimpe, Sara Pini, Carmine Pinto Togawa, Felicitas Lenz, Georg Lurje, Alexandra Pohl, 307 Genetics and molecular pathology of gastric Thomas Winder, Yan Ning, Susan Groshen, Heinz- malignancy: Development of targeted therapies in Josef Lenz the era of personalized medicine 365 Gastric cancer—a clinicopathological study in a Michael Van Ness, Jeffrey Gregg, Jun Wang, Mingyi tertiary care centre of North-eastern India Chen Arun Kumar Barad, Sanjeet Kumar Mandal, Hiriyur S. 315 Molecular therapy for gastric cancer Harsha, Birkumar M. Sharma, Th Sudhirchandra Singh Yasuhide Yamada  Radiation Therapy Acknowledgements 323 Palliative radiation therapy for primary gastric melanoma None. Jason M. Slater, Ted C. Ling, Jerry D. Slater, Gary Y. Yang Footnote  Translational Research 328 Research on microRNAs leads to new frontiers Conflicts of Interest: The author has no conflicts of interest to of clinical and translational relevance for gastric declare. cancer management Valeria Canu, Giovanni Blandino, Laura Lorenzon 334 Clinical and molecular aspects of miR-200 family in gastric cancer doi: 10.21037/tgh.2016.06.04 Moisés Blanco-Calvo, Manuel Valladares-Ayerbes Cite this article as: Gao LM. The book Gastric Cancer: 337 ADAM and EMMPRIN: a promising couple for more diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer. Transl Gastroenterol prognostic precision in patients with gastric cancer Hepatol 2016;1:54.

Appendix 1 Author information Sandro Barni Oncology Department, Medical Oncology Unit, Azienda Daniela Adua Ospedaliera Treviglio, Treviglio (BG), Italy Medical Oncology, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy Eugene H. Blackstone Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Sang-Hoon Ahn Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College Ohio, USA; Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Department of Surgery, Seoul Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Heike Allgayer Moisés Blanco-Calvo Department of Experimental Surgery, Universitätsmedizin Biomedical Research Institute of La Coruña, INIBIC; and Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprechts-Karls- Clinical Oncology Department, La Coruña University University of Heidelberg, Germany; Molecular Oncology of Hospital, CHUAC, La Coruña, Spain Solid Tumors, DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center), Heidelberg, Germany Giovanni Blandino Translational Oncogenomic Unit, Italian National Cancer Khaldoun Almhanna Institute “Regina Elena”, Rome, Italy Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, USA Tim Bright Flinders University Department of Surgery, Flinders Tomiyasu Arisawa Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Australia Department of Gastroenterology, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan Zhaode Bu Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Beijing Cancer N. Faruk Aykan Hospital and Institute, Peking University School Department of Medical Oncology, Istanbul University of Oncology, Key laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Oncology Institue, Istanbul, Turkey Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Beijing, China Gian Luca Baiocchi Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Surgical Xiao-Peng Cai Clinic, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy Department of Tumor Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China Emre Balik Department of General Surgery, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Yantao Cai Istanbul University, Turkey Shanghai Huashan Hospital, No.12 Middle Urumqi Road, Shanghai, China Arun Kumar Barad Department of General Surgery, RIMS, Imphal, Manipur, Emel Canbay India NPO to support Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Treatment, Oosaka, Japan Robert Barnes Anatomic Pathology, AmeriPath Central Florida Orlando, Valeria Canu Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, USA Translational Oncogenomic Unit, Italian National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena”, Rome, Italy Liang Cao Xiaogeng Chen Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Department of Tumor Surgery, Fujian Provincial Hospital, Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China Fuzhou, China

Yi Cao Yan Chen Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Nanchang University, Nanchang, China Hospital, Jilin Medical University, Changchun, China

Stefano Cascinu Jie Chen Medical Oncology, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Second Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti Clinical Medical College (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Umberto I, Ancona, Italy Jinan University, Shenzhen, China

Emanuel Cavazzoni Tao Chen University of Perugia, Section of General and Emergency Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Surgery, “Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital”, Via Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China Dottori, 06132, Perugia, Italy Mingyi Chen Po-Chih Chang Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Bariatric and Metabolic International University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, Surgery Centre, Eda Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan USA

Dong-Min Chang Hsin-Wei Chen First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi’an National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Immunology, China Medical Ian Chau University, Taichung, Taiwan Department of Medicine, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK Xiangdong Cheng Department of Abdominal Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Xiao-Yan Chen Hospital, Hangzhou, China The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China Xia Cheng Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Xin-Zu Chen Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China Hyun Cheol Chung Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University College of Luchuan Chen Medicine, Yonsei University Health System, Korea Department of Tumor Surgery, Fujian Provincial Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, China Arianna Coniglio Surgical Clinic, Department of Clinical and Experimental Zongyou Chen Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy Shanghai Huashan Hospital, No. 12 Middle Urumqi Road, Shanghai, China Michael R. Cox The Whiteley-Martin Research Centre, Discipline of Surgery, The Sydney Medical School Nepean, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia David Cunningham Ruizeng Dong Department of Medicine, Royal Marsden Hospital, London Department of Abdominal Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer and Surrey, UK Hospital, Hangzhou, China

David Cunningham Annibale Donini Royal Marsden Hospital, London and Surrey, UK University of Perugia, Section of General and Emergency Surgery, “Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital”, Via Domenico D’Ugo Dottori, 06132, Perugia, Italy Department of Surgical Sciences, Catholic University, Rome, Italy Jiang Du PLA General Surgery Center, Southwest Hospital of the Cheng-Xue Dang Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China Yian Du Department of Abdominal Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Filippo de Braud Hospital, Hangzhou, China Department of Medical Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy Nassim El Hajj Gastroenterology, Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, USA Maulik Dhandha Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Ayse Basak Engin Gastroenterology, resence Saint Francis Hospital, Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University of Illinois at Chicago, Evanston, USA University, 06330, Hipodrom-Ankara, Turkey

Francesca Di Fabio Guy D. Eslick Medical Oncology, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, The Whiteley-Martin Research Centre, Discipline of Italy Surgery, The Sydney Medical School Nepean, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia Bárbara do Nascimento Borges Socio-environmental and Hydric Resources Institute, Luca Pio Evoli Federal Rural University of Amazonia, Belém, Pará, Brazil University of Perugia, Section of General and Emergency Surgery, “Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital”, Via Danilo do Rosário Pinheiro Dottori, 06132, Perugia, Italy Master Program of Animal Health and Production, Federal Rural University of Amazonia, Belém, Pará, Brazil Liqiao Fan The Fourth Affliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Yuichiro Doki Shijiazhuang, China Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Chao-Gang Fan Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region Ruizeng Dong (Jinling Hospital), Nanjing, China Department of Abdominal Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, China Sachio Fushida Department of Surgery, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ping Dong Japan Xin Hua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China Venu Ganipisetti Hiriyur S. Harsha Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Department of General Surgery, JSS Medical College, Gastroenterology, resence Saint Francis Hospital, Mysore, Karnataka, India University of Illinois at Chicago, Evanston, USA Liang He Maria Gazouli Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The first Hospital, Department of Basic Medical Science, Laboratory of Jilin Medical University, Changchun, China Biology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Andrew Hendifar Division of Medical Oncology, Sharon Carpenter Rui Ge Laboratory, University of Southern California/Norris Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Xining, China Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA Ayham Ghinagow Department of Bariatric and Metabolic International Shigeo Hisamori Surgery Centre, Eda Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Stefano Maria Giulini Surgical Clinic, Department of Clinical and Experimental Shane Hopkins Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA Walter R. Glaws Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Jun-Te Hsu Gastroenterology, resence Saint Francis Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial University of Illinois at Chicago, Evanston, USA Hospital at Linkou, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan Luigina Graziosi University of Perugia, Section of General and Emergency Bing Hu Surgery, “Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital”, Via Anatomic Pathology, AmeriPath Central Florida Orlando, Dottori, 06132, Perugia, Italy Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, USA

Jeffrey Gregg Yanfeng Hu Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China USA Jian-Kun Hu Susan Groshen Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA Xiang Hu Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Mine Gulluoglu Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China Pathology, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey Chih-Kun Huang Department of Bariatric and Metabolic International Hankun Hao Surgery Centre, Eda Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan; Shanghai Huashan Hospital, No. 12 Middle Urumqi Road, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical Shanghai, China University, Guangzhou, China Chang-Ming Huang Yixing Jiang Department of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Cancer Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China Institute, 500 University Drive, Hershey, USA

Qiang Huang Xun Jiang Department of General Surgery, Anhui Provincial Hospital Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China Mengmeng Jiang Ling Huang Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Department of Abdominal Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Nanchang University, Nanchang, China Hospital, Hangzhou, China Zhigang Jie Hoon Hur Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Department of Surgery, Ajou University School of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China Medicine, Suwon, Korea Paola Jimenez Haruaki Ishibashi Department of Oncology, National Cancer Institute, NPO to support Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Treatment, Bogotá, Colombia, France Oosaka, Japan Mi Ran Jung Hideshi Ishii Department of Surgery, Chonnam National University Department of Frontier Science for Cancer and Hwasun Hospital, South Korea Chemotherapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Wei-Ming Kang Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical Vikram K. Jain College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences The Royal Marsden Hospital, London and Surrey, London, and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China UK Hasan Karanlik Yi-Yin Jan Department of General Surgery, Istanbul University Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Oncology Institue, Istanbul, Turkey Hospital at Linkou, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan Gun Min Kim Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University College of Oh Jeong Medicine, Yonsei University Health System, Korea Department of Surgery, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, South Korea Hyung-Ho Kim Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College Jiafu Ji of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Department of Surgery, Seoul Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Beijing Cancer National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea Hospital and Institute, Peking University School of Oncology, Key laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Byung Sik Kim Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Beijing, Department of Gastric Surgery, Asan Medical Center, China Ulsan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Nan Jia Hee Sung Kim The Fourth Affliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Department of Gastric Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Shijiazhuang, China Ulsan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Sathish Krishnan Guoxin Li Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Gastroenterology, resence Saint Francis Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China University of Illinois at Chicago, Evanston, USA Ping Li Chrisann Kyi Department of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Department of Medicine and Center for Advanced Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China Digestive Care, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, USA Yong Li The Fourth Affliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Nancy Lammert Shijiazhuang, China Anatomic Pathology, AmeriPath Central Florida Orlando, Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, USA Wen-Han Li First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi’an Mariceli Baia Leão Barros Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China Molecular Biology Laboratory, Biological Science Institute, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil Guo-Li Li Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region Cosima Lenz (Jinling Hospital), Nanjing, China Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Yang Li Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region (Jinling Hospital), Nanjing, China Felicitas Lenz Division of Medical Oncology, Sharon Carpenter Weihua Li Laboratory, University of Southern California/Norris Department of Tumor Surgery, Fujian Provincial Hospital, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, Fuzhou, China Los Angeles, USA Zhengrong Li Heinz-Josef Lenz Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern Nanchang University, Nanchang, China California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA; Division of Medical Han Liang Oncology, Sharon Carpenter Laboratory, University of Tianjin Cancer Hospital, Huan Hu Xi Lu, Tiyuan Bei, Hexi Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, District, Tianjin, China Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA Wei Liang Ziyu Li Department of General Surgery, Anhui Provincial Hospital Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Beijing Cancer Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China Hospital and Institute, Peking University School of Oncology, Key laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Khong-Hee Lim Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Beijing, Digestive Disease Centre, Department of General Surgery, China Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

Kelvin Kaiwen Li Jian-Xian Lin Digestive Disease Centre, Department of General Surgery, Department of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China Liangqing Lin Georg Lurje Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Division of Medical Oncology, Sharon Carpenter Nanchang University, Nanchang, China Laboratory, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, Ted C. Ling Los Angeles, USA Department of Radiation Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, USA Zhi-Qiang Ma Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical Hao Liu College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China Iruru Maetani Ning Liu Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Xining, China of Internal Medicine, Toho University Ohashi Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan Wenju Liu Fujian Provincial Tumor Hospital, Fuzhou, China Claudia Maggi Medical Oncology Department, Fondazione IRCCS Shifu Liu Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy Fujian Yongan Municipal Hospital, Sanming, China Kirubakaran Malapan Yi Liu Department of Bariatric and Metabolic International Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Surgery Centre, Eda Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Nanchang University, Nanchang, China Sanjeet Kumar Mandal Laura Lorenzon Department of Radiotherapy, RIMS, Imphal, Manipur, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Surgical and Medical India Department of Translational Medicine, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy Munetaka Masuda Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University, School Jun Lu of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan Department of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China Aurelia Meloni-Ehrig Molecular Pathology, AmeriPath Central Florida, Orlando, Liesheng Lu USA Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China Qing-Bin Meng Xiao Luo Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical PLA General Surgery Center, Southwest Hospital of the College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Lijie Luo Lei Meng Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Guangdong First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi’an Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (the Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China Wei Miao Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Xining, China Anna Minchom Do Joong Park Department of Medicine, Royal Marsden Hospital, London Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College and Surrey, London, UK of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea Masaki Mori Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate Young Kyu Park School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Department of Surgery, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, South Korea Tingyu Mou Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Aditya Pathak Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Vinayak Nagaraja USA The Whiteley-Martin Research Centre, Discipline of Surgery, The Sydney Medical School Nepean, Penrith, Fausto Petrelli New South Wales, Australia Oncology Department, Medical Oncology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Treviglio, Treviglio (BG), Italy Yan Ning Division of Medical Oncology, Sharon Carpenter Alexandria T. Phan Laboratory, University of Southern California/Norris Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Los Angeles, USA USA

Kazutaka Obama Filippo Pietrantonio Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine Medical Oncology Department, Fondazione IRCCS Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy

Naoki Ohmiya Sara Pini Department of Gastroenterology, Fujita Health University Medical Oncology, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, School ofMedicine, Toyoake, Japan Italy

Hiroshi Okabe Carmine Pinto Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine Medical Oncology, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Italy

Takashi Oshima Alexandra Pohl Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University, School Division of Medical Oncology, Sharon Carpenter of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan Laboratory, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, Kai Pan Los Angeles, USA Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Second Clinical Medical College (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Nazario Portolani Jinan University, Shenzhen, China Surgical Clinic, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy Malav P. Parikh Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Feng Qian Gastroenterology, resence Saint Francis Hospital, PLA General Surgery Center, Southwest Hospital of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Evanston, USA Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China Terence Jin-Lin Quek Salih Samo Digestive Disease Centre, Department of General Surgery, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore Gastroenterology, resence Saint Francis Hospital, University of Illinois at Chicago, Evanston, USA Thomas W. Rice Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Taroh Satoh Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Department of Frontier Science for Cancer and USA; Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chemotherapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, University, Japan USA Andrea Ooi Se Yasushi Rino Department of Bariatric and Metabolic International Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University, School Surgery Centre, Eda Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan Manish A. Shah Symara Rodrigues-Antunes Department of Medicine and Center for Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory, Biological Science Institute, Digestive Care, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil Cornell Medical Center, New York, USA

Fabiola Lorena Rojas Llimpe Fei Shan Medical Oncology, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Peking University School of Italy Oncology, Beijing Institute for Cancer Research, Beijing, China Keun Won Ryu Gastric Cancer Branch, Research Institute and Hospital, Qinshu Shao National Cancer Center, Republic of Korea Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, China Seong Yeop Ryu Department of Surgery, Chonnam National University Birkumar M. Sharma Hwasun Hospital, South Korea Department of General Surgery, Manipur, India

Sezer Saglam Chia-Rui Shen Departments of Medical Oncology, Istanbul University Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Oncology Institue, Turkey Science, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Daisuke Sakai Tomoyuki Shibata Department of Frontier Science for Cancer and Department of Gastroenterology, Fujita Health University Chemotherapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka School ofMedicine, Toyoake, Japan University, Japan Wallax Augusto Silva Ferreira Yoshiharu Sakai Molecular Biology Laboratory, Biological Science Institute, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Mendel E. Singer Burak Sakar Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case School Departments of Medical Oncology, Istanbul University of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Oncology Institue, Turkey USA Th Sudhirchandra Singh Guido Alberto Massimo Tiberio Department of General Surgery, Manipur, India Surgical Clinic, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy Scott Sittler Anatomic Pathology, AmeriPath Central Florida Orlando, Kayo Togawa Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida, USA Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Jason M. Slater Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA Department of Radiation Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, USA Shigeru Tsunoda Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine Jerry D. Slater Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Department of Radiation Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, USA Manuel Valladares-Ayerbes Biomedical Research Institute of La Coruña, INIBIC; and Yong-Chun Song Clinical Oncology Department, La Coruña University First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi’an Hospital, CHUAC, La Coruña, Spain Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China Michael Van Ness Hai-Bin Song Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Tumor Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China USA

Hongjiang Song Anirudh Vij Heilongjiang Provincial Tumor Hospital, 150 Ha Ping Department of Bariatric and Metabolic International Road, Nangang District, Harbin, China Surgery Centre, Eda Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Jian Suo Jin Wan Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The first Hospital, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Guangdong Jilin Medical University, Changchun, China Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Tomomitsu Tahara Traditional Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China Department of Gastroenterology, Fujita Health University School ofMedicine, Toyoake, Japan Yanan Wang Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Ker-Kan Tan Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China Digestive Disease Centre, Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore Jia-Bin Wang Department of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Eiji Tanaka Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Dong Wang The Fourth Affliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Yuan Tian Shijiazhuang, China The Fourth Affliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China Kuan Wang Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China Hailei Wang Jun Wang Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Harbin Medical Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Loma University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, USA

Jiabin Wang David I. Watson Department of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Flinders University Department of Surgery, Flinders Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia

Ruixue Wang Yuzhe Wei PLA General Surgery Center, Southwest Hospital of the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Harbin Medical Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China

Xu-Lin Wang Shenghong Wei Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region Department of Tumor Surgery, Fujian Provincial Cancer (Jinling Hospital), Nanjing, China Hospital, Fu Ma Lu, Feng Ban, Fuzhou, China

Jinsi Wang Cheng Wei Department of Tumor Surgery, Fujian Provincial Hospital, Fujian Provincial Tumor Hospital, Fuzhou, China; Fuzhou, China Thomas Winder Cheng Wang Division of Medical Oncology, Sharon Carpenter Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Xining, China Laboratory, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, Da-Guang Wang Los Angeles, USA Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The first Hospital, Jilin Medical University, Changchun, China Hiu Yan Wong Departments of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Zhenglin Wang Kong Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China Ningyan Wong Digestive Disease Centre, Department of General Surgery, Bing Wang Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore Department of Abdominal Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, China Aiwen Wu Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Beijing Cancer Junjiang Wang Hospital and Institute, Peking University School The First Division of General Surgery Department, of Oncology, Key laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangdong Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Beijing, Genreral Hospital, Guangzhou, China China

Wei Wang Peng Xia Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Guangdong First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi’an Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (the Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China Ming-Jie Xia Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The first Hospital, Jilin Medical University, Changchun, China Ligang Xia Xuefei Yang Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Second Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Second Clinical Medical College (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Clinical Medical College (Shenzhen People’s Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, China Jinan University, Shenzhen, China

Jianbin Xiang Litao Yang Shanghai Huashan Hospital, No.12 Middle Urumqi Road, Department of Abdominal Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Shanghai, China Hospital, Hangzhou, China

Jian-Wei Xie Dongyun Yang Department of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA Bing Xiong Department of Tumor Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Hanhui Yao Wuhan University, Wuhan, China Department of General Surgery, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China Zhiyuan Xu Department of Abdominal Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Thomas Yau Hospital, Hangzhou, China Departments of Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Yingwei Xue Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Harbin Medical Xin Ye University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Yasuhide Yamada and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China Gastrointestinal Oncology Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan Zaisheng Ye Department of Tumor Surgery, Fujian Provincial Cancer Peng Yan Hospital, Fu Ma Lu, Feng Ban, Fuzhou, China PLA General Surgery Center, Southwest Hospital of the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China Ta-Sen Yeh Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Gary Y. Yang Hospital at Linkou, Chang Gung University College of Department of Radiation Medicine, Loma Linda University Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan Medical Center, Loma Linda, USA Yutaka Yonemura Changshun Yang NPO to support Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Treatment, Department of Tumor Surgery, Fujian Provincial Hospital, Oosaka, Japan Fuzhou, China Takaki Yoshikawa Jin Yang Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Kanagawa Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan; Department of Surgery, Provincial People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan Kate Young Alberto Zaniboni Department of Medicine, Royal Marsden Hospital, London Oncologia, Dipartimento Oncologico, Istituto Ospedaliero and Surrey, London, UK Fondazione Poliambulanza, Brescia, Italy

Jiang Yu Yang Zhang Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The first Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China Jilin Medical University, Changchun, China

Jian-Chun Yu Jian Zhang Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China Chi Zhang Xuefeng Yu Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Heilongjiang Provincial Tumor Hospital, 150 Ha Ping Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China Road, Nangang District, Harbin, China Jun Zhang Hui Yu Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, the First Affiliated Department of Tumor Surgery, Fujian Provincial Cancer Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, Hospital, Fu Ma Lu, Feng Ban, Fuzhou, China China

Xiaojun Yu Guoyang Zhang Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Zhejiang Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Provincial People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China

Jing-Hai Yu Chengwu Zhang Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The first Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Xining, China Jilin Medical University, Changchun, China Qun Zhao Pengfei Yu The Fourth Affliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Department of Abdominal Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Shijiazhuang, China Hospital, Hangzhou, China Guodong Zhao Jiang Yu People’s Hospital, Haikou, China Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China Chao-Hui Zheng Department of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Ling Yuan Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China PLA General Surgery Center, Southwest Hospital of the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China Chaohui Zheng Department of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Margaret Yungbluth Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China Department of Pathology, Presence Saint Francis Hospital, University of Illinois at Chicago, Evanston, USA Yansheng Zheng Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Guangdong Weidong Zang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (the Fujian Provincial Tumor Hospital, Fuzhou, China; Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China Yiming Zhou Zhiqiang Zhu Shanghai Huashan Hospital, No.12 Middle Urumqi Road, Department of General Surgery, Anhui Provincial Hospital Shanghai, China Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Donglei Zhou Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China