Worldwide practice in gastric cancer surgery

Table 1 Percentage of D2-dissections for different tumor stages worldwide (%)

	Asia	Europe	South America	North America
Distal early	33.9	57.1	54.2	38.5
Total early	27.7	66.7	50.0	30.8
Distal advanced	98.2	85.7	91.7	92.3
Total advanced	95.5	93.0	95.8	92.3

Table 2 Percentage of different neo-adjuvant therapy regimens worldwide (%)

	Asia	Europe	South America	North America
Chemotherapy	69.6	76.8	68.2	84.6
Radiotherapy	0.0	1.8	0.0	0.0
Chemoradiation	12.5	12.5	9.1	7.7
None	17.9	8.9	22.7	7.7