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03-10-2022 | Metastasis | ASO Author Reflections
ASO Author Reflections: Combination Intra-Peritoneal and Systemic Chemotherapy for Gastric Cancer with Peritoneal Metastases
Authors:
Daryl K. A. Chia, FRCS, Jia Jun Ang, MRCS, Raghav Sundar, MRCP, Guowei Kim, FRCS, Asim Shabbir, FRCS, Jimmy B. Y. So, MPH, FRCS, Wei Peng Yong, MRCP
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Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Issue 13/2022
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Excerpt
Past Gastric cancer with peritoneal metastases (GCPM) portends a poor prognosis. Despite initial promising results of neoadjuvant intra-peritoneal and systemic (NIPS) chemotherapy trials, the only phase III randomized controlled trial to date (PHOENIX-GC) reported a survival benefit with IP paclitaxel (PTX), systemic paclitaxel + S-1 but did not reach statistical significance.
1 There are otherwise few comparative studies reporting the outcomes of NIPS for GCPM. …