[Adjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer]

Nihon Geka Gakkai Zasshi. 1996 Apr;97(4):312-6.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

For recent 40 years, many authors reported the results of adjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer including 5-fluorouracil, uracil and tegafur, mitomycin C, cytosine arabinoside. OK-432 adriamycin, methotrexate, and cis-pltatin in solitary use of combinations. It is difficult to find a standard effective adjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer in these reports. The reasons of this unclearness were as follows; (1) In phase III studies, surgery alone was not a control group in some reports. (2) The number of patients was too small to evaluate statistically. (3) Inter-institutional differences had important roles in the results of multicenter study in the other studies. For the future plans on adjuvant chemotherapy, it is important to make a simple designed protocol, and perform it as a multicenter study including institutions with minimum inter-institutional differences.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Chemotherapy, Adjuvant
  • Cytarabine / administration & dosage
  • Doxorubicin / administration & dosage
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Fluorouracil / administration & dosage
  • Humans
  • Methotrexate / administration & dosage
  • Mitomycin / administration & dosage
  • Stomach Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Stomach Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Cytarabine
  • Mitomycin
  • Doxorubicin
  • Fluorouracil
  • Methotrexate

Supplementary concepts

  • AMF protocol
  • MFC protocol