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Influence of Overweight on Patients With Gastric Cancer After Undergoing Curative Gastrectomy—Invited Critique
Liz Thu-Ha Lee, MD;
David H. Berger, MD, MHCM
Arch Surg. 2009;144(4):358.
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The World Health Organization projects that by 2015 more than 1.6 billion adults will be overweight and 700 million will be obese.1 In addition, obesity has been demonstrated to be a risk factor for several abdominal malignant neoplasms.2-4 Therefore, the effect of obesity on surgical outcomes in a cancer population is a timely issue.2, 5
The article by Ojima et al addresses the issue of obesity and its effects on short-term surgical outcomes and 5-year survival for gastric cancer patients. Despite the fact that only 8 patients in this study were obese (BMI >30.0), the authors demonstrated that overweight patients (BMI  25.0) with gastric cancer present a technical challenge to the surgeon. In the hands of a group experienced in gastric surgery, there was an increased need for total gastrectomy and splenectomy in overweight patients. In addition, overweight patients (BMI >25) undergoing . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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