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Gastric Cancer

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This chapter will discuss the epidemiology, workup, treatment, and follow-up for gastric cancer.

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Acknowledgment

We thank Charlotte Dai Kubicky MD, PhD, and Jennifer S. Yu, MD, for their work on the prior edition of this chapter.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, Marin General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Jennifer S. Chang

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Mekhail Anwar

  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Hans T. Chung

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Chang, J.S., Anwar, M., Chung, H.T. (2018). Gastric Cancer. In: Hansen, E., Roach III, M. (eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based Radiation Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62642-0_19

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