A Clinical Prospective Study to Validate a Risk Scoring Model for the HMGC After Curative Surgery

The study was a single-centre, prospective study. Prospectively collected data were used to analyze the consistency between the actual outcomes of patients with or without hepatic metastases after curative gastrectomy and the predicted outcomes of the risk scoring model, in order to assess the clinical applicability of the model. In addition, analyses were performed to compare the differences in the risk of hepatic metastasis and the time interval of occurrence between patients who did not receive neoadjuvant therapy and those who received neoadjuvant therapy, as well as between patients with different outcomes after receiving neoadjuvant therapy (TRG 0-1 vs. TRG 2-3 in postoperative pathology).

Inclusion criteria

• Received curative gastrectomy (D2 lymph node dissection);
• Gastric cancer without distant organ metastasis, distant lymph node metastasis and peritoneal implantation (M0) confirmed by postoperative pathology;
• No hepatic tumors and other occupying diseases, no chronic diseases such as cirrhosis and hepatitis, no hepatic schistosomiasis, no hepatic echinococcosis, no hepatic tuberculosis, and no severe fatty liver disease before the curative surgery;
• No history of intraperitoneal chemotherapy;
• No other serious concomitant diseases with satisfactory organ function;
• No history of other malignant tumors;
• Comply with the protocol during the whole study period;
• Sign informed consent and permission of withdraw in the whole study period;
• Estimation the overall survival after surgery no less than 12 months;
• Consent to analysis of clinicopathological data and prognostic follow up;
• Karnofsky Performance Scores (KPS) more than 60.

Exclusion criteria

• Special histological types of gastric cancer (neuroendocrine, squamous, squamous cell, hepatoid adenocarcinoma or others);
• Gastro-esophageal junction cancer;
• Severe congestive heart failure, frequent arrhythmia, or myocardial infarction within 12 months;
• Immunosuppressive therapists for organ transplantation;
• Seriously uncontrolled recurrent infection;
• History of other malignancies;
• No abilities of self-knowledge or mental disorders;
• Combination of other serious diseases;
• Concurrent participation in other clinical trials.