TY - JOUR T1 - IN TRAOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPY FOR GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA TT - JF - MJIRI JO - MJIRI VL - 9 IS - 3 UR - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1313-en.html Y1 - 1995 SP - 183 EP - 187 KW - Gastric adenocarcinoma. Radiotherapy. Intraoperative radiation therapy. N2 - Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) is a multidisciplinary approach in which residual tumors or tumor beds are directly irradiated during a surgical procedure. To evaluate its efficacy, from 1985, we conducted a prospective study including non-metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma treated by surgery, IORT (15 Grays) and postoperative external beam radiotherapy (44 Grays). Up to 1993, 51 cases of gastric adenocarcinoma (20 pN0 and 31 pN1-2) have been included in the study. Mortality and morbidity rates were not different from those of surgery alone. The overall 5 year survival rate was 59.1 %, and the pN1N2 5 year survival rate was 50.6'70. These promising results are comparable with those of Asian randomized studies which demonstrate the possible value of IORT in the treatment of gastric adenocarcinoma. M3 ER -