Abstract

Platinum and fluoropyrimidine combination chemotherapy forms the basis of first-line systemic treatment for advanced gastric, gastro-oesophageal junction, and oesophageal adenocarcinoma, and apart from the addition of trastuzumab for the 15% of patients whose tumours are HER2-positive,1 there has been very little progress over the past two decades. The median overall survival (OS) of patients with advanced disease is around 11 months.2

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