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AIM: This prospective randomized study compared the survival of patients with stage IB-IIIA gastric cancer treated with surgery alone or surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients with pathological stage IB-IIIA disease were randomly assigned to the following groups: surgery alone (n=116), or surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil, doxifluridine, or uracil-tegafur for 12 months (n=113). RESULTS: The overall survival rate was 86.1% in the adjuvant group and 78.5% in the surgery-alone group. The overall survival rate did not significantly differ between the adjuvant-chemotherapy and surgery-only groups (p=0.163). In the subgroup analyses, patients with stage II disease and those receiving uracil-tegafur treatment in the adjuvant group showed significantly better prognosis than those in the surgery-alone group (p=0.036 and 0.005, respectively). CONCLUSION: This study did not find a significant survival benefit to be associated with adjuvant chemotherapy with fluoropyrimidines in patients with stage IB-IIIA gastric cancer. However, it may be effective for patients with stage II disease. Additionally, uracil-tegafur is a promising agent for adjuvant chemotherapy of gastric cancer if S-1 is not available because of its toxicity.
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Floxuridina/uso terapêutico , Fluoruracila/uso terapêutico , Neoplasias Gástricas/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Gástricas/cirurgia , Tegafur/uso terapêutico , Uracila/uso terapêutico , Adulto , Idoso , Antineoplásicos/efeitos adversos , Antineoplásicos/uso terapêutico , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/efeitos adversos , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Quimioterapia Adjuvante/efeitos adversos , Feminino , Floxuridina/efeitos adversos , Fluoruracila/efeitos adversos , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estadiamento de Neoplasias , Neoplasias Gástricas/patologia , Análise de Sobrevida , Tegafur/efeitos adversos , Uracila/efeitos adversosRESUMO
Combined chemotherapy including 5-FU plus radiation treatment resulted in a synergistic effect has been reported. S-1 enhances a radiation response of colon cancer cell line xenografts. Also the effectiveness of S-1 + radiation therapy has been reported. A 66-year-old man underwent a low anterior resection for lower rectal cancer. Adjuvant chemotherapy was not performed due to Stage II rectal cancer. Twenty months after the operation, solitary sacral bone metastasis was found during the postoperative work-up. S-1 (120 mg/day) combined with radiotherapy was performed on days 1-14 and 21-35. Radiation (3 Gy) was administered a total of 45 Gy on days 1-5, 7-12 and 35-40. Moreover, the reduction was judged as complete response after 11 courses of mFOLFOX 6. There has been no sign of recurrence for 44 months. It suggested that local control therapy (S-1 + radiation) plus systemic chemotherapy (mFOLFOX6) was one of the promising effective therapies for single sacral bone metastasis of rectal cancer.