The survival benefit of palliative gastrectomy and/or metastasectomy in gastric cancer patients with synchronous metastasis: a population-based study using propensity score matching and coarsened exact matching.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Palliative surgeries were controversial for asymptomatic metastatic gastric cancer (mGC) patients. This study was aimed to evaluate survival benefit of palliative surgeries to gastric and/or metastatic tumors in mGC patients based on U.S population. Materials and Methods: A total of 8345 gastric cancer patients diagnosed with synchronous distal metastasis between 2004 to 2013 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) database were divided into four groups according to surgery strategies: surgeries to both primary and metastatic tumors (SPM), gastrectomy only (GO), metastasectomy only (MO) and no surgery performed (NS). Their clinicopathological characteristics and overall survival (OS) were analyzed before and after propensity score mat

SUBMITTER: Yang LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6360412 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature