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Marcel Verheij, PhD, and John Marshall, MD, on Gastric Cancer: First Results From the CRITICS Trial

2016 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Marcel Verheij, PhD, of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, and John Marshall, MD, of Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, discuss findings from this multicenter phase III study of neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by either surgery and chemotherapy or surgery and chemoradiotherapy in resectable gastric cancer (Abstract 4000).



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