Late toxicity after adjuvant radiochemotherapy for gastric adenocarcinoma
Bibliographic record
Abstract
14042 Background: There is limited late toxicity data following adjuvant radiochemotherapy for resected gastric cancer. Methods: We reviewed radiation dose volume histograms (DVHs) and toxicity outcomes for gastric cancer patients (stage Ib to IV) who received adjuvant conformal radiochemotherapy between November 2000 and May 2005. Charts were reviewed to determine survival, late clinical toxicity, and biochemical markers of renal or hepatic toxicity (creatinine, bilirubin, ALP, AST, ALT). DVHs for kidneys and liver were correlated with toxicity outcomes. Overall (OS), disease-free (DFS) and event (death or late toxicity) -free (EFS) survival were calculated. Results: 80 of 88 patients’ DVHs were available for review. Mean age was 58 years (range: 22 - 75), with 53 (66%) males and 27 (34%) females. Stage distribution was: IB - 13 (16%), II - 32 (40%), IIIA - 24 (30%), IIIB - 4 (9%) and IV - 7 (9%). 3D conformal radiotherapy (45 Gy/25 fractions) was used. In 69 patients, chemotherapy was standard as per the INT-116 study; 11 study patients received infusional 5FU (200mg/m2/day for 12 weeks) and cisplatin in escalating dose (4 cycles q 2 weeks, 0–30 mg/m2). All treatment was completed in 56 (70%) patients; 9 (11%) did not complete radiotherapy and 22 (27.5%) had chemotherapy dose omissions. Median follow up is 30 months (range 6–62). At 2 years, OS was 84% (95% CI 73%-90%), DFS was 66% (95% CI 53%-75%) and EFS was 61% (95% CI 49–72%). Clinical late toxicity occurred in 6 patients 9 to 53 months following treatment: bowel obstruction/perforation (2) and anastomotic stricture (4), in volumes treated to 45 Gy. No clinical symptoms of renal or hepatic toxicity were reported. Grade 1 (CTCAE v3.0) elevation of creatinine was observed in 8 (10%) patients; at least one liver test was altered in 22 (27.5%) patients, (grade 1–17; 2–4; 3–1). Abnormal bloodwork occurred 9 days to 55 months following treatment and did not correlate with higher kidney and liver doses. Conclusions: In our cohort of patients treated with conformal radiochemotherapy, small bowel and anastomotic toxicity was most common, with no clinical renal or hepatic toxicity observed. Biochemical renal and hepatic changes were not related to clinical toxicity or dose delivered. Further assessment with longer follow-up in a larger sample is planned. No significant financial relationships to disclose.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".