Role of radiation therapy in gastric adenocarcinoma

Table 1 Patterns of relapse based on University of Minnesota re-operation series and autopsy series

	Univ. of Minnesota	Autopsy series[6-9]
	Re-operation
	series[10] (n=107)
Pattern of relapse	%	%
Gastric bed	55	52-68
Anastomosis	27	54-60
Abdominal wound	5	-
Peritoneal seeding	42	30-43
Lymph nodes	431	52
Local-regional as any site	69	80-93
Local-regional only	23	-
Lymph Nodes only	7	-
Lymph nodes only in nodal	3	-
dissection sites
Distant metastases	36	50

¹Most common nodal sites of relapse were porta-hepatis, celiac, and para-aortic regions. Other sites were suprapancreatic, pancreaticoduodenal, and splenic hilar regions.