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ABSTRACT: Aim
Post-surgical weight loss influences chemotherapy compliance and may be a risk factor for survival. Intake of an oral elemental nutritional supplement (OENS) can reduce weight loss after gastric cancer (GC) surgery. We assessed whether therapy completion levels would increase in patients receiving postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy in combination with an OENS.Methods
This was a multicenter, open-label, single-arm, phase II study in GC patients who underwent curative total or distal gastrectomy (TG/DG) and received adjuvant S-1 chemotherapy. The primary endpoint was the S-1 completion rate for 1 year with a relative performance (RP) value of ≥70%; secondary endpoints included factors affecting the completion rate of S-1, RP value after eight S-1 courses, S-1 and OENS pe
SUBMITTER: Imamura H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8560593 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature