Influence of correction of nutritive deficiency on the effectiveness of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer

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Aim. To increase the effectiveness of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer by correcting nutritional deficiency.

Materials and methods. Of 200 patients with locally advanced gastric cancer (mean age 57.2 years (46.1–68.3), 100 patients received neoadjuvant chemotherapy with nutritional support from 2018 to 2020. One hundred patients received neoadjuvant chemotherapy without nutritional support from 2013 to 2018 (historical control). The incidence of nutritional deficiency before treatment in the “neoadjuvant chemotherapy + nutritional support” group was 54%, and in the “neoadjuvant chemotherapy only” group it was 47%. Nutritional status was assessed using anthropometry, questionnaires (NRS-2002, MUST, GLIM), dynamometry, blood tests, bioimpedance. Complications according to NCI CTCAE v5.0; оbjective response rate according to RECIST 1.1; pathomorphological regression according to the JGCA classification (2017); 2-year event-free survival were assessed.

Results. The frequency of nutritional deficiency before the start of treatment in the “neoadjuvant chemotherapy + nutritional support” group was 54%, in the “neoadjuvant chemotherapy only” group – 47%. After the completion of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the group “neoadjuvant chemotherapy + nutritional support” the frequency of nutritional deficiency was 1%, in the group “neoadjuvant chemotherapy only” without nutritional support – 62%. In patients with nutritional deficiency in the “neoadjuvant chemotherapy + nutritional support” group, partial regression was registered in 51.9% of cases, in the “neoadjuvant chemotherapy only ”group it was 27.6% (p<0.05). There were no differences in the frequency of pathological response. 2-year event-free survival in patients without nutritional deficiency in the group “neoadjuvant chemotherapy + nutritional support” was 100%, in the “neoadjuvant chemotherapy only” group it was 68.5% (p<0.001); in patients with nutritional deficiency – 72,5 and 60.6% respectively (p<0.05).

Conclusion. Nutritional deficiency is an important predictive and prognostic marker of the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of locally advanced gastric cancer. Comprehensive diagnosis of nutritional status and nutritional support can improve the results of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer.

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Nadezhda A. Brish

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: nbrish@list.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6995-1048

D. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Tatiana Yu. Semiglazova

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology; Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: tsemiglazova@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4305-6691

D. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Aleksei M. Karachun

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: dr.a.karachun@gmail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6641-7229

D. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Lev N. Shevkunov

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: levka1978@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4533-1658

Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Yana A. Ulyanchenko

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: yanamischanchuk@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9629-2065

radiologist

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Anna S. Artemyeva

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: oinochoya@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2948-397X

Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Tatiana S. Golovanova

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: tatsersem@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8655-0377

pathologist

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Elena V. Tkachenko

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: elenatkachen@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6375-8335

Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Yuliia V. Alexeeva

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: dr.alekseevauv@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5609-1237

Graduate Student

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Sofiko M. Sharashenidze

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: sofiko.sharashenidze@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9842-2951

Clinical Resident

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Liubov V. Strakh

Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

Email: lubovstrah@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5943-1081

Clinical Resident

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Svetlana A. Protsenko

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: s.protsenko@list.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8704-7669

D. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Gulfiia M. Teletaeva

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: drteletaeva@yahoo.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9365-8554

Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Larisa V. Filatova

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology; Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University

Email: larisa_filatova@list.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0728-4582

D. Sci. (Med.), Prof.

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Boris S. Kasparov

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: boriankasparov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0341-3823

Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Vladislav V. Semiglazov

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology; Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

Email: ssemiglazov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8825-5221

D. Sci. (Med.), Prof.

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Aleksei M. Belyaev

Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology; Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University

Email: tsemiglazova@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4636-4200

D. Sci. (Med.), Prof.

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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2. Fig. 1. 2-year event-free survival (EFS) in groups of patients with LAGC (according to the Kaplan–Meier method).

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3. Fig. 2. 2-year EFS in groups of patients with LAGC depending on the presence of nutritional deficiency – ND (according to the Kaplan–Meier method).

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4. Fig. 3. The optimal algorithm for assessing nutritional status and implementation of nutritional therapy in patients with LAGC, used in the Federal State Budgetary Institution "N.N. Petrov National Medical Center of Oncology".

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