The primary objective of this trial is to determine the impact of the FOLFOX regimen on quality of life and the incidence of chemotherapy induced neurotoxicity.
Gastric cancer is one of the main cancer-related causes of death in the world. There is more than one standard treatment for non-metastatic advanced disease. Among the therapeutic alternatives there is high level of evidence to recommend surgery followed by chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy and for perioperative chemotherapy. These strategies have not been compared in adequate powered trials, so there are important regional differences in their use. Postoperative chemotherapy with oxaliplatin based chemotherapy may offer some advantages in limited resource settings, because of its lower logistic requirements and it could be specially useful in centers with high quality surgery. On the other hand one of its most important downsides could be a higher impact on quality of life particularly related to oxaliplatin induced neuropathy which can last long after the end of treatment. This is a prospective observational trial in which after consent subjects are going to be evaluated with the EORTC (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer) questionnaires C30 and CIPN20 during FOLFOX (5-fluorouracil/leucovorin with oxaliplatin) adjuvant treatment.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
64
Quality of life and chemotherapy induced neurotoxicity evaluation
Dr. Sótero del Río Hospital
Santiago, Chile
Quality of life deterioration > 10% (dichotomic)
Questionnaire EORTC C30 (sub scale global health status) in two consecutive evaluation
Time frame: Participants will be followed until 3 months after the end of chemotherapy for this outcome, an expected average of 9 months
Disease free survival
Time to event
Time frame: Participants will be followed until 2 years after the end of chemotherapy for this outcome, an expected average of 24 months
Overall survival
Time to event
Time frame: Participants will be followed until 2 years after the end of chemotherapy for this outcome, an expected average of 24 months
Significant chemotherapy induced neurotoxicity > 10% (dichotomic)
Questionnaire EORTC CIPN20 (sensory sub scale) in two consecutive evaluation
Time frame: Participants will be followed until 3 months after the end of chemotherapy for this outcome, an expected average of 9 months
Median change in Quality of life score
Questionnaire EORTC C30
Time frame: Participants will be followed until 3 months after the end of chemotherapy for this outcome, an expected average of 9 months
Median change in chemotherapy induced neurotoxicity score
Questionnaire EORTC CIPN20
Time frame: Participants will be followed until 3 months after the end of chemotherapy for this outcome, an expected average of 9 months
Quality of life deterioration > 10%
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Time to event considering the a drop of 10% in the global health sub scale of the EORTC C30 Questionnaire
Time frame: Participants will be followed until 3 months after the end of chemotherapy for this outcome, an expected average of 9 months
Significant chemotherapy induced neurotoxicity > 10%
Time to event considering the a drop of 10% in the sensory sub scale of the EORTC CIPN 20 Questionnaire
Time frame: Participants will be followed until 3 months after the end of chemotherapy for this outcome, an expected average of 9 months