The SIC-GIRCG 2013 Consensus Conference on Gastric Cancer

De Manzoni, Giovanni; Baiocchi, Gian Luca; Framarini, Massimo; De Giuli, Maurizio; D'Ugo, Domenico; Marchet, Alberto; Nitti, Donato; Marrelli, Daniele; Morgagni, Paolo; Rinnovati, Andrea; Rosati, Riccardo; Roviello, Franco; Allieta, Rosaldo; Berti, Stefano; Bracale, Umberto; Capelli, Patrizio; Cavicchi, Angelo; Di Martino, Natale; Donini, Annibale; Filippini, Angelo; Francioni, Gianfranco; Frascio, Marco; Garofalo, Alfredo; Giulini, Stefano Maria; Grassi, Giovanni Battista; Innocenti, Paolo; Martino, Antonio; Mazzocconi, Gualtiero; Mazzola, Lorenzo; Montemurro, Severino; Palasciano, Nicola; Pantuso, Gianni; Pernthaler, Heinrich; Petri, Roberto; Piazza, Diego; Sacco, Rosario; Sgroi, Giovanni; Staudacher, Carlo; Testa, Michele; Vallicelli, Carlo; Vettoretto, Nereo; Zingaretti, Costantino; Capussotti, Lorenzo; Morino, Mario; Verdecchia, Giorgio Maria

doi:10.1007/s13304-014-0248-1

The topic chosen by the Board of the Italian Society of Surgery for the 2013 annual Consensus Conference was gastric cancer. With this purpose, under the direction of 2 chairmen, 36 experts nominated by the Regional Societies of Surgery and by the Italian Research Group for Gastric Cancer (GIRCG) participated in an experts consensus exercise, preceded by a questionnaire and mainly held by telematic vote, in accordance with the rules of the Delphi method. The results of this Consensus Conference, presented to the 115th National Congress of the Italian Society of Surgery, and approved in plenary session, are reported in the present paper.

De Manzoni, G., Baiocchi, G.L., Framarini, M., De Giuli, M., D'Ugo, D., Marchet, A., et al. (2014). The SIC-GIRCG 2013 Consensus Conference on Gastric Cancer. UPDATES IN SURGERY, 66(1), 1-6 [10.1007/s13304-014-0248-1].