Inclusion Criteria:

Patients with biopsy/frozen section proven adenocarcinoma of stomach.

- Preoperative clinical examination and imaging indicating operable disease.

- Intraoperative exploration indicating operability i.e. no peritoneal deposits,no
evidence of para aortic lymphadenopathy,no direct involvement of contiguous organs

- Surgical plan for distal/proximal/total gastrectomy

Exclusion Criteria:Patients with low performance score

- Staging investigations or intraoperative exploration indicating inoperable disease

- Patients medically unfit for major surgery

- Patients who have been given preoperative chemotherapy/chemoradiation.

- Patients with gastroesophageal junction tumours

- Patients unreliable for follow up

- Patients above the age of 70 years

- Past history of malignancy