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Predict 5-Year Survival in Elderly Gastric Cancer

Completed
Conditions
Machine Learning
Gastric Cancer
Registration Number
NCT06208046
Lead Sponsor
Fujian Medical University
Brief Summary

In this study, elderly patients with gastric cancer who underwent radical gastrectomy in Union Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University from 2012 to 2018 were included as a derived cohort, and the training set and internal validation set were randomly divided by 4:1. Machine learning strategies of random forest, decision tree and support vector machine are used to construct survival prediction model. Each model was tested in an internal validation set and an external validation set consisting of patients from two other large medical centers.

Detailed Description

This is a retrospective, supervised learning, data mining study.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
2187
Inclusion Criteria
  • (1) GC diagnosis confirmed by abdominal computed tomography (CT) or biopsy; (2) age ≥65 years at diagnosis; (3) underwent radical surgical resection without evidence of distant metastasis; and (4) availability of complete clinical and pathological data.
Exclusion Criteria
  • (1) postoperative pathology confirming non-gastric primary tumors; (2) distant metastasis; (3) incomplete clinical data; and (4) other concurrent malignancies within five years.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
5-year overall survival5 years or 60 months.

Survival status at 5 years: survival, death, survival with tumor, deletion.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Fujian Medical University Union Hospital

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Fuzhou, Fujian, China

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