A PHASE II TRIAL EXPLORING THE EXTENSIVE INTRA-OPERATIVE PERITONEAL LAVAGE (EIPL) AS A PROPHYLACTIC STRATEGY FOR PERITONEAL RECURRENCE IN LOCALLY ADVANCED GASTRIC CANCER: reporting postoperative morbidity and mortality after early closure

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia

Thales Paulo Batista¹  Mário Rino Martins¹  Euclides Dias Martins-filho¹  Rogerio Luiz Dos Santos¹ 

关键词: Stomach neoplasms;    Lymph node excision;    Local neoplasm recurrence;    Neoplasias gástricas;    Excisão de linfonodo;    Recidiva local de neoplasia;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-28032015000200017

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Background The Extensive Intraoperative Peritoneal Lavage (EIPL) has been proposed as a practical prophylactic strategy to decrease the risk of peritoneal metastasis in gastric cancer. Objective To explore the safety and efficacy of the EIPL in our locally advanced gastric cancer patients. Methods This study is an open-label, double-center, single-arm phase II clinical trial developed at two tertiary hospitals from Recife (Pernambuco, Brazil). Results The study protocol was prematurely closed due to slow accrual after only 16 patients had been recruited to participate. Eight of them were excluded of the protocol study during the laparotomy, whereas four cases were also excluded from the per-protocol analysis. Two patients had died in hospital before 30 days and six were alive with no evidence of cancer relapses after a follow-up ranging from five to 14,2 months (median of 10.6 months). In the intention-to-treat analysis, three of eight patients suffered of gastrointestinal leakages and two of them had died. On a per-protocol basis, two of four patients presented this type of postoperative complication and one of them had died. All deaths occurred as a somewhat consequence of gastrointestinal leakages. Conclusion We could not make any conclusion about the safety and efficacy of the EIPL, but the possibility of this approach might increase the rate of gastrointestinal leakage is highlighted.

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