Multi-institutional analysis of the prognostic significance of postoperative complications after curative resection for gastric cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Insufficient data are available on the prognostic significance of complications after resection of gastric cancer. Therefore, we aimed to assess this gap in our knowledge by studying patients with resectable gastric cancer.

Methods

A multi-institutional retrospective database comprising clinical information of 3575 patients who received resection of gastric cancer from 2010 to 2014 at nine institutions. Grades 2 or greater complications of the Clavien-Dindo classification were judged as clinically relevant postoperative complications, and their associations with postoperative survival were assessed. We assessed the effect of complications on times of initiation and continuation of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy by S-1.

Results

A total of 2954 patients

SUBMITTER: Kanda M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6718595 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature