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Because of the absence of a universally accepted chemotherapy protocol for gastric cardiac cancer, each patient needs to be managed individually by a multidisciplinary team. Since the liver remains the most common site of metastasis in patients with gastric cardiac cancer, adjuvant chemotherapy is needed to improve prognosis. Recent results of clinical trials suggest that neoadjuvant chemotherapy is better than post-resection chemotherapy because of reduction of the tumor stage. Molecular precision target therapy on HER2, PD-1, and PD-L1 molecules has been shown to be highly promising in treatment of this cancer with improved outcomes. There is an urgent need for randomized, multicenter, well-controlled studies to establish universally accepted optimal therapy guidelines for this cancer.

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Xu, K., Yang, Y., Huang, Q., Jiang, H., Boosalis, V. (2018). Chemical Therapy. In: Huang, Q. (eds) Gastric Cardiac Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79114-2_14

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