Early gastric cancer
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients with an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status score of 0 or 1 [1]. 2. Patients with an age at registration over 20 years old. 3. Patients who provided written informed consent for study participation. 4. Patients with biopsy histopathological examination of the lesion diagnosed as Vienna Classification Category 4 or 5 [2]. 5. Patients with a tumor size of 10 mm or greater. 1. Oken, M.M., Creech, R.H., Tormey, et al: Toxicity And Response Criteria Of The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. Am J Clin Oncol 5:649-655, 1982. 2. R J Schlemper, R H Liddell, Kato Y, et al: The Vienna classification of gastrointestinal epithelial neoplasia. Gut. 2000; 47: 251-255.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients with previous gastric surgery and those with a gastric tube. 2. Patients with pedunculated type lesion [3]. 3. Patients who would have difficulty participating in this study due to psychiatric disorders or symptoms. 4. Patients whom doctor decide not to register to this study. 3. Participants in the Paris Workshop. The Paris endoscopic classification of superficial neoplastic lesions : esophagus, stomach, and colon-November 30 to December 1, 2002. Gastrointestinal Endosc 58 (suppl): S3-43, 2003
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary endopoint of this study is to obtain the intragastric pressure necessary for determining the invasion depth of early gastric cancer for preoperative endoscopy | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital Department of Endoscopy