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Intra-arterial chemotherapy improved survival of stage 2-3 gallbladder cancer after curative resection
Cheng Chen1, Wenming Feng1, Yinyuan Zheng2
1Department of General Surgery, First People's Hospital affiliated to Huzhou Normal College, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China.
Objective:
To investigate the impact of postresection intra-arterial chemotherapy (IAC) on prognosis of stage 2-3 gallbladder cancer (GBC) after curative resection.
Methods:
Between May 2010 and August 2014, 76 cases of GBC accepted curative surgery in our center and were pathologically staged as 2-3. After resection, 37 underwent 4 courses of intravenous chemotherapy (IVC) following 2 courses of IAC (ART group), and 39 received 6 courses of IVC (SYS group). Both the IAC and IVC regimens consisted of oxaliplatin (85 mg/m2) on day 1 and gemcitabine (800 mg/m2) on day 1 and day 8. Chemotherapy-related complications, disease-free survival (DFS), overall survival (OS), and hepatic metastases-free survival (HMFS) were retrospectively analyzed.
Results:
Patient characteristics and chemotherapy complications did not differ between the two groups. There was no significant difference in 3-year DFS of the two groups (p=0.0822, HR=0.6270; 95% CI, 0.3627 to 1.0838). The ART group had significantly higher 3-year OS (p=0.0378, HR=0.5460; 95% CI, 0.3025 to 0.9856) and 3-year HMFS (p=0.0414, HR=0.5187; 95% CI, 0.2706 to 0.9940) than the SYS group.
Conclusions:
IAC could effectively and safely decrease postresection hepatic metastases and improve 3-year HMFS and OS of stage 2-3 GBC.
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