Comparison: perioperative chemotherapy vs. adjuvant therapy.
Sample size differences between the two groups.
Kaplan meier survival analysis, overall survival and disease free survival
Enrollment
108 patients
Sex
Volunteers
No Healthy Volunteers
Inclusion criteria
We included histologically proven gastric adenocarcinoma patient with operable disease and the patients who completed their prescribed perioperative or adjuvant chemotherapy cycles
Exclusion criteria
Patients were excluded if they had Tis or T1, N0 disease, inoperable disease, metastatic. In addition, all those who did not undergo adequate lymphadenectomy (< D2) or had R1 margins following surgery were excluded
Trial design
108 participants in 2 patient groups
perioperative chemotherapy vs. adjuvant therapy in gastric ca patients
perioperative chemotherapy group vs. adjuvant chemotherapy group