The main treatment for early gastric cancer (EGC) include endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and radical gastrectomy. However, appropriate treatment for patients who exceed the absolute indications and noncurative resection of ESD remains unestablished. Sentinel node navigation surgery (SNNS) enables limited lymph node resection, thereby facilitating function-preserving gastrectomy (FPG) and improving quality of life (QoL). SNNS seems to be the promising solution according to previous study, however evidence-based medicine was lacking. It is imperative to establish its safety and efficacy in patients with EGC. However, the optimal implementation of FPG remain unclear. Moreover, objective assessment of postoperative functional outcomes,remains limited.
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3 and 5-year disease free survival
Timeframe: From treatment to 3 and 5-years after surgery