Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) in Advanced Gastric Cancer

Peking University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Gastric Cancer

Treatments: Other: detection of CTCs

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01848015

CGOG5003

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess the predictive value of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) for recurrence of advanced gastric cancer after radical resection.

To identify the relationship between the detection of circulation tumor cells and recurrence patterns of gastric cancer after radical resection.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having signed informed consent
• Age≥ 18 years old
• Histologically confirmed gastric adenocarcinoma
• Preoperative clinical examination and imaging indicating operable disease
• complete resection (R0 resection)
• D2 or D2+ resection

Exclusion criteria

• Other tumor type than adenocarcinoma
• Patients who have been given preoperative chemotherapy/chemoradiation.
• Staging investigations or intraoperative exploration indicating inoperable disease
• R1 or R2 resection
• D0 or D1 resection
• Patients unreliable for follow up
• Past history of malignancy

Trial design

200 participants in 1 patient group

CTCs positive

Treatment:

Other: detection of CTCs