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INDIAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY
Volume 72, Issue 3, Pages 200-205Publisher
SPRINGER INDIA
DOI: 10.1007/s12262-010-0053-0
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Palliative gastrectomy; Liver metastasis; Survival
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Surgery for gastric cancer with synchronous liver metastasis is applied for palliation. The aim was to determine whether surgical removal of the primary tumor provides a better survival and disease progression Sixty-two patients are classified according to the primary tumor were removed or not. Patients and tumor characteristics, removal of the primary tumor are examined as the factors that were affecting overall survival and metastatic progression-free survival. The mean follow-up time was 243 +/- 23 days. The mean survival of the resection and nonresection groups were 422 +/- 50 and 170 +/- 16 days (p = 0.0001), respectively. After adjustment for other covariates, resection was associated with a trend toward improvement in overall survival (p = 0.003; relative risk RR: 0.34; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.17-0.66) and improvement in metastatic progression-free survival (p = 0.07, RR = 0.51; 95% CI: 0.25-1.07). Excision of the primary tumor has an effect on metastatic progression-free survival and overall survival.
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