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Background: Non-curative resection after endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for early gastric cancer (EGC) can contribute to local recurrence or lymphatic and distant metastasis of the tumor. We stratified the risk of local recurrence according to the histological characteristics in non-curative resection after ESD for EGC., Methods: Among 892 EGCs treated with ESD, 152 (17.0%) were classified as non-curative resection based on the histology after ESD. The clinical outcomes and risk factors associated with local recurrence were analyzed retrospectively in non-curative resections., Results: Of 152 non-curative resections, 46 (30.3%) were stratified as Group 1 (incomplete resection and met the ESD criteria), 31 (20.4%) as Group 2 (complete resection and exceeded the ESD criteria), 41 (27.0%) as Group 3 (incomplete resection and exceeded the ESD criteria), and 34 (22.4%) as Group 4 (lymphovascular invasion regardless of complete resection). Group 3 [odds ratio (OR) 3.991; p = 0.015] and Group 4 (OR 4.487; p = 0.014) had higher rates of local recurrence after non-curative resection. In those high-risk groups, endoscopic surveillance without additional treatment detected significantly more local recurrence than in those receiving additional treatment (p = 0.029)., Conclusion: Risk stratification for non-curative resection is important for EGC prognosis after ESD. Moreover, additional treatment for non-curative resection influences long-term outcomes, especially in high-risk groups.

Objective: Endoscopic resection (ER) of foregut neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) is increasingly performed instead of surgery. This study aimed to compare the long-term therapeutic outcomes of ER and surgical resection (SR) for foregut NETs., Methods: From 2002 to 2012, a total of 49 patients with histologically confirmed foregut NETs were treated by ER (n = 33) and SR (n = 16). The clinicopathological characteristics and therapeutic outcomes were evaluated., Results: Of the 33 patients who underwent ER [endoscopic mucosal resection (n = 26), endoscopic mucosal dissection (n = 7)], 32 were diagnosed as NET-G1 and NET-G2, and the other as neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC). Of the 16 patients who underwent SR, 10 were diagnosed as NET-G1, 2 as NET-G2 and 4 as NEC. The median tumor size was significantly smaller in the ER group compared with the SR group (7 mm vs 19 mm, P = 0.001). In almost all patients treated with ER (32/33), NET invasion was limited to the mucosa and submucosa. Non-curative resections were observed in 24.2% of the patients in the ER group (8/33) and 25.0% in the SR group (4/16). No recurrence occurred in NET cases with positive resection margins by ER. However, all cases of non-curative resection with lymphatic invasion (one in the ER group and four in the SR group) developed liver metastasis during the follow-up despite complete resection, and all these five patients has histologically confirmed NECs., Conclusion: NET patients treated by ER may have a good prognosis if the tumor size is small and histologically low grade without lymphatic invasion., (© 2015 Chinese Medical Association Shanghai Branch, Chinese Society of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.)

Objective: To determine the long-term outcome after endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in patients with early gastric cancer (EGC) according to the pathological extent., Methods: ESD were performed in 280 patients with 309 EGC. The tumors were classified by pathological severity based on absolute indication (AI), expanded indication (EI) or beyond expanded indication (BEI). The therapeutic outcomes among the three groups were analyzed., Results: The complete resection rates of EGC were 96.4%, 78.7% and 41.2% in the AI-EGC, EI-EGC and BEI-EGC groups, respectively (P = 0.000). En bloc resection rates were 97.6%, 87.4% and 86.3% in the AI-EGC, EI-EGC and BEI-EGC groups, respectively (P = 0.023). The 5-year tumor recurrence rates were 1.8%, 1.5% and 15.4% in the AI-EGC, EI-EGC and BEI-EGC groups, respectively (P = 0.000). The 5-year disease-specific survival rates were 100%, 100% and 97.4% in the AI-EGC, EI-GEC and BEI-EGC groups, respectively (P = 0.088). The 5-year disease-free survival rates were 98.2%, 98.5% and 84.6% in the AI-EGC, EI-EGC and BEI-EGC groups, respectively (P = 0.000)., Conclusions: ESD was effective and safe in treating AI-EGC and EI-EGC, but there was a comparatively high rate of recurrence after ESD in the BEI-EGC group. However, long-term outcomes of patients with BEI-EGC that did not receive additional surgery were better than those with an natural course of EGC. Thus, ESD may be considered for specific BEI-EGC patients at high risk for surgery., (© 2014 Chinese Medical Association Shanghai Branch, Chinese Society of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.)