Researchers staged a retrospective showdown between total omentectomy (TO) and partial omentectomy (PO) in the radical gastrectomy arena for advanced gastric cancer (AGC) with serosal invasion. The verdict? No VIP pass for TO in preventing peritoneal recurrence. PO stole the spotlight with comparable recurrence-free survival and a better 5-year overall survival. Turns out, for T4a gastric cancer, a little less radical might still be radical enough.
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