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[Clinical results of a randomized controlled trial on the effect of adjuvant immunochemotherapy using Esquinon and Krestin in patients with curatively resected gastric cancer. Cooperative Study Group of Cancer Immunochemotherapy, Tokai Gastrointestinal Oncology Group]. 1986

H Nakazato, and H Ichihashi, and T Kondo

From July 1977, a controlled clinical trial in 168 patients who received curative surgery for stomach cancer and 111 similarly treated for colorectal cancer was conducted in the form of a cooperative study involving 22 institutions. One week after surgery, carboquon (CQ) was given at a dose of 2 mg/m2 once a week, followed by PSK at a dose of 2 g/m2 every day for 4 weeks. This regimen was repeated 9 times for 55 weeks. For stomach cancer, patients were divided into 3 groups; Group A: CQ intermittently, Group B: CQ PSK in alternate doses, Group C: controls. For colorectal cancer, the patients were divided into 2 groups; Group D: CQ + PSK in alternate doses, Group E: controls. Survival rate of stage III stomach cancer patients in Group B was higher than that in Group A, the difference being statistically significant between 20 and 24 months after surgery. For colorectal cancer, the survival rate of patients with Dukes C in Group D was statistically superior to that in Group E. These differences were much more apparent among patients who received more than 6 courses of the regimen.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D011182	Postoperative Care	The period of care beginning when the patient is removed from surgery and aimed at meeting the patient's psychological and physical needs directly after surgery. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)	Care, Postoperative,Postoperative Procedures,Procedures, Postoperative,Postoperative Procedure,Procedure, Postoperative
D011509	Proteoglycans	Glycoproteins which have a very high polysaccharide content.	Proteoglycan,Proteoglycan Type H
D011897	Random Allocation	A process involving chance used in therapeutic trials or other research endeavor for allocating experimental subjects, human or animal, between treatment and control groups, or among treatment groups. It may also apply to experiments on inanimate objects.	Randomization,Allocation, Random
D002225	Carbazilquinone	An alkylating agent structurally similar to MITOMYCIN and found to be effective in the treatment of leukemia and various other neoplasms in mice. It causes leukemia and thrombocytopenia in almost all human patients.	Carboquinone,Carboquone,Esquinon
D003110	Colonic Neoplasms	Tumors or cancer of the COLON.	Cancer of Colon,Colon Adenocarcinoma,Colon Cancer,Cancer of the Colon,Colon Neoplasms,Colonic Cancer,Neoplasms, Colonic,Adenocarcinoma, Colon,Adenocarcinomas, Colon,Cancer, Colon,Cancer, Colonic,Cancers, Colon,Cancers, Colonic,Colon Adenocarcinomas,Colon Cancers,Colon Neoplasm,Colonic Cancers,Colonic Neoplasm,Neoplasm, Colon,Neoplasm, Colonic,Neoplasms, Colon
D004334	Drug Administration Schedule	Time schedule for administration of a drug in order to achieve optimum effectiveness and convenience.	Administration Schedule, Drug,Administration Schedules, Drug,Drug Administration Schedules,Schedule, Drug Administration,Schedules, Drug Administration
D005260	Female		Females
D005743	Gastrectomy	Excision of the whole (total gastrectomy) or part (subtotal gastrectomy, partial gastrectomy, gastric resection) of the stomach. (Dorland, 28th ed)	Gastrectomies
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man