<p>Gastric Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma: Current Management and Future Challenges</p>
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Abstract
Recent advances in the epidemiology, pathology, molecular mechanisms, and combined modality therapy (CMT) fields have shown that gastric signet ring cell carcinoma (GSRC) should be considered a distinct cancerous entity. Clinical management of this cancer is challenging, with chemoradioresistance and poor outcomes in advanced stages. Pathological and molecular sets of GSRC demonstrate different features of poor cohesion and differentiation according to the WHO, Japanese Gastric Cancer Association, and Laurén classifications. These features also result in poor response to adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. Certain studies of GSRC showed the disputed effectiveness of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Our aim was to discuss how an improved understanding of these therapeutic benefits may provide better treatment selection for patients, and therefore improve survival. The challenges in the new understanding of GSRC in routine practice and pathology, and the current limitations of treatment will also be discussed.
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