Research Article
Primary Gastric Lymphoma: Conservative Treatment Modality Is Not Inferior to Surgery for Early-Stage Disease
Table 3
Treatment modality applied for study patients ().
| | Non-MALT () | MALT () | | Stage
I/II, IIE | Stage IV | Stage
I/II, IIE | Stage IV |
| | Conservative | 27 (63%) | 12 (67%) | 7 (54%) | 3 (100%) | | CT | 22 | 10 | 3 | 3 | | CT + RT | 5 | 2 | 1 | | | RT | | | 3 | |
| | Nonconservative | 17 (37%) | 7 (33%) | 6 (46%) | 0 | | Surgery + CT | 16 | 6 | 4 | | | Surgery + CT + RT | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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MALT: mucosa associated lymphoid tissue, CT: chemotherapy, and RT: radiotherapy.
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