Status of lymphadenectomy in surgical treatment of gastric cancer        LIU Ying-bin, DONG Ping, WU Wen-guang.  Department of General Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China
Corresponding author: LIU Ying-bin, E-mail:laoniulyb@163.com
Abstract    Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignancies and a leading cause of cancer death. Nowadays, surgical management is the major treatment method for gastric cancer. Complete resection is still the only treatment for patients with gastric cancer. It was reported that improved prognosis was gotten in patients with gastric cancer who underwent D2 lymphadenectomy. D2 radical resection has been widely performed for advanced gastric cancer. Lymphadenectomy is the most important part of curative resection, but safe en bloc lymph node dissection is also the most difficult.