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fulfillment of 10 items consisting in (1) radical resection according to the surgeons' assessment at the end of the operation, (2) no intraoperative complications, (3) negative resection margins (R0), (4) at least 15 lymph nodes (LNs) retrieved and examined, (5) no severe postoperative complications, (6) no reinterventions, (7) no readmission to intensive care unit (ICU), (8) no prolonged hospital stay (21 days), (9) no postoperative mortality, and (10) no hospital readmission
TOO is defined by the addition of PeriOperative Chemotherapy (POC) or Adjuvant chemoTherapy (AT) administration to the 10 TO items resulting in 11 items
TTT is defined as the interval from diagnosis to first treatment (first chemotherapy administration or radical surgery), the diagnosis will be traced to the date of final pathology of endoscopic biopsies; TTT will be subdivided in Staging Time (ST), time from first histology to completion of staging, and Waiting list Time (WT), time from last staging exam to first treatment
PTA appropriateness, indicated by the percentage of newly diagnosed patients undergoing upfront surgery who are not offered adjuvant therapy. This may be due to either early staging or because the patient is deemed unfit for systemic treatment. PTA will be calculated in patients aged 80y or younger, given that older patients less frequently receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy
TBA expressed as the percentage of patients who undergo surgery for Gastric Cancer at FPG after being discussed at the MTB over the totality of patients surgically treated for GaC at FPG