The Associations between Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Long-Term Outcomes after Stomach Cancer Surgery.

ABSTRACT: Whether perioperative packed red blood cell (pRBC) transfusion is associated with inferior long-term outcomes after stomach cancer surgery remains controversial. This research used a retrospective cohort study. Patients with stage I~III stomach cancer undergoing tumor resection were collected at a tertiary medical center. Patient characteristics, surgical features and pathologic findings were gathered from an electronic medical chart review. The associations of perioperative pRBC transfusion with postoperative disease-free and overall survivals were evaluated using Cox regression analysis with an inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW). Restricted cubic spline functions were employed to characterize dose-response relationships between the amount of transfusion and cancer outcomes

SUBMITTER: Hsu FK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8582361 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature