Table 1.

Largest series with conversion therapy for initially unresectable gastric cancer

Study	Period	Total of patient with initial unresectable gastric cancer	Number of conversion to surgery	Number of R0 resection
Nakajima et al[35]	1989-1995	30	19	9 (30%)
Yamaguchi et al[79]	2001-2013	259	84	43 (51%)
Sato et al[80]	2002-2014	100	33	28 (85%)
Fukuchi et al[81]	2003-2013	151	40 (26%)	32 (80%)
Nakamura et al[82]	2005-2014	59	15 (%)	12 (100%)
Morgagni et al[37]	2005-2016	73	22	22 (100%)
Yasufuku et al[83]	2009-2015	39	13	10 (77%)