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Immunonutritional Supplement After Total Gastrectomy in Patients With Stage III Gastric Cancer

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Stage III Gastric Cancer
Interventions
Other: ONS
Registration Number
NCT05253716
Lead Sponsor
Jinling Hospital, China
Brief Summary

Gastric cancer patients with stage III will be randomized to immune nutrition support or control group at discharge after total gastrectomy. Patients will receive 6 months of immune nutrition support or normal diet after discharge. The primary and secondary outcomes will be collected.

Detailed Description

Gastric cancer patients with stage III after total gastrectomy at discharge, if she/he has nutrition risk (NRS2002≥3), then she/he will be randomized to immune nutrition support (INS) or control (C) group after discharge. In the INS group, in addition to diet, and patients will also consume two bottles per day of a high-calorie, high-protein ONS and three capsules of fish oil lasted for 6 months. In the C group, patients will receive normal diet. Both groups will receive nutrition counseling.

The primary and secondary outcomes will be collected.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
696
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Informed consent of patients or their legal representatives to participate in this study
  2. consecutive adult (≥18 years) patients underwent radical gastrectomy (total gastrectomy) with pathological TNM stage III
  3. nutrition Risk Screening (NRS) 2002≥3 at discharge
  4. eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) score of 0-2 at discharge
Exclusion Criteria
  1. unable to oral or consume ONS
  2. has received neoadjuvant chemotherapy
  3. pregnancy
  4. palliative surgery or gastric stump cancer or Borrmann type IV
  5. oral anticoagulants cannot be stopped; congenital acquired immune deficiency disease
  6. serious cardiovascular disease including chronic heart failure, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, arrhythmias (such as atrial fibrillation), or uncontrolled hypertension
  7. severe liver and kidney diseases including active hepatitis, cirrhosis, and uremia
  8. diabetes has developed complications or uncontrolled by medications
  9. previous use of drugs affecting immune function
  10. previous use of fish oil capsule > 2 times / week or contraindications to fish oil capsule
  11. motor system diseases cannot complete grip strength measurement and 5-time chair stand test

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
immune nutrition supportONSIn the immune nutrition support group, in addition to diet, and patients will also consume two bottles per day of a high-calorie, high-protein ONS and three capsules of fish oil after discharge lasted for 6 months.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
3-year disease free survival after dischargeup to 3 years

from date of randomization to disease recurrence or death

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Changes in weightup to 12 months.

nutritional status after discharge

3-year overall survivalup to 3 years.

from date of randomization to death due to any reason,

unplanned readmission rateup to 6 months.

readmission due to unplanned reason

Quality of life after dischargeup to 12 months.

Quality of life assessed by EORTC QLQ-C30

incidence of sarcopenia after dischargeup to 12 months.

sarcopenia is defined as low skeletal muscle mass plus low muscle strength or low physical ability.

Changes in BMI (weight and height will be combined to report BMI in kg/m^2)up to 12 months.

nutritional status after discharge

Changes in prealbumin levelup to 12 months.

nutritional status after discharge

Changes in hemoglobin levelup to 12 months.

nutritional status after discharge

toxicity of chemotherapy graded according to the CTCAE, version 5.0up to 6 months.

Chemotherapy toxicity will be monitored at end of each cycle during chemotherapy by investigators, and graded according to the CTCAE, version 5.0.

Changes in albumin levelup to 12 months.

nutritional status after discharge

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Jinling Hospital, China

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Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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