[Gastric cancer complicated by bleeding: a systematic review]. / Rak zheludka, oslozhnennyi krovotecheniem.

Bleeding as the most common complication of gastric cancer is a significant problem of modern surgery. Both oncologists and surgeons in ordinary hospitals deal with this adverse event. In addition to the well-known drugs for hemostasis, there are also generally recognized traditional methods of endoscopic hemostasis and transcatheter angiographic embolization. Surgical interventions do not lose their role too if previous hemostatic methods turned out to be ineffective. The reports devoted to radiotherapy for treatment and prevention of gastric bleeding following malignant process have been recently published. Such a wide choice of hemostatic methods prompted us to analyze the most significant recent studies regarding effectiveness of various methods and choice of the most optimal one.