Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy With Versus Without Bursectomy

Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy With Bursectomy in a Left Outside Bursa Omentalis Approach Versus Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy Without Bursectomy for Advanced Posterior Gastric Wall Cancer: a Randomized Controlled Study

Bursectomy is widely performed in open surgery for advanced gastric cancer in East Asia. However laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy with complete bursectomy is difficult and rare performed. Herein, we conduct a single-centre randomized controlled trial to explore the safety and feasibility of totally laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy using a left outside bursa omentalis approach for achieving complete bursectomy.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Although, the clinical value of bursectomy in addition to D2 lymphadenectomy in radical gastrectomy for curable gastric cancer is controversial. Data analysis of the nationwide registry of gastric cancer in Japanese revealed that 10.7% of patients with subserosal and serosal positive cancer developed peritoneal recurrence after radical gastrectomy. Some trials, although, indicated a biologically reasonable but statistically non-significant advantage to bursectomy. But for patients with posterior gastric wall trans-serosal disease, such micrometastases can constitute the seeds of later recurrence. The non-bursectomy showed worse overall survival. Early removal of micrometastases and cancer cells deposited might prove beneficial and a possible therapeutic effect. In any case, the authors reasonably concluded that bursectomy should not be abandoned at this time. The hypothesis that it might actually enhance survival should be entertained. In the past decades, Japanese, Korea, Chinese and even Turkey, surgeons have continued to performed bursectomy and lymph nodes dissection as the conventional open procedures for advanced gastric cancer. Lymph nodes dissection and bursectomy is routinely regarded as a standard surgical procedure during radical open gastrectomy for tumors penetrating the serosa of the posterior gastric wall. Complete bursectomy and lymphadenectomy in open radical gastrectomy may represents a formidable challenge to the best of surgeons and its influences on operative morbidity and mortality, but it can be also safely performed in high volume experience centers or by experienced surgeons with mortality rate of <1% and morbidity rates around 14%.

Generally speaking, bursectomy is incomplete without total gastrectomy. The concept of bursectomy mentioned above is always almost confined to removal of the local anterior membrane of the transverse mesocolon and pancreatic capsule and to open radical gastrectomy. With the generalization and development of laparoscopic technology, laparoscopic surgery for advanced gastric cancer as clinical study has extensively performed in Asia.The investigators take the lead in carrying out laparoscopic bursectomy and D2 radical gastrectomy by. Herein, the investigators conduct a single-centre randomized controlled trial to explore the safety and feasibility of totally laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy using a left outside bursa omentalis approach for achieving complete bursectomy.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

56

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Locations

    • Guangdong
      • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510120
        • Recruiting
        • Guangdong Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Jin Wan
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Wenjun Xiong

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Primary gastric adenocarcinoma diagnosed pathologically by endoscopic biopsy
  • Tumor located in the posterior wall of upper and middle third stomach estimated by endoscopy and CT scan
  • Informed consent
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG): 0 ot 1
  • American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score: Ⅰto Ⅲ

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnancy or female in suckling period
  • Contraindication to general anesthesia (severe cardiac and/or pulmonary disease)
  • Severe mental disease
  • Emergency operation due to complication (bleeding, perforation or obstruction) caused by primary tumor

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: LTG with Bursectomy
laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy with bursectomy using a left outside bursa omentalis approach
Patients with advanced posterior gastric wall cancer including in the laparoscopic total gastrectomy (LTG) with bursectomy group will undergo laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy with bursectomy using a left outside bursa omentalis approach.
Sham Comparator: LTG without Bursectomy
laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy without bursectomy
Patients who are included in the laparoscopic total gastrectomy (LTG) without bursectomy group will undergo laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy without bursectomy in a conventional manner.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Early morbidity
Time Frame: 30 days
The early morbidity is defined as the adverse event observed during peri-operative time.
30 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Operative time
Time Frame: Intraoperative
The mean operative time of the procedures
Intraoperative
Lymph node
Time Frame: 14 days
This outcome consists of the number of total lymph nodes harvested and the number of lymph nodes in the wall of bursa omentalis
14 days
First ambulation
Time Frame: 30 days
The time to first ambulation
30 days
3-year survival
Time Frame: 3 years
3-year disease free survival rate
3 years
5-year survival
Time Frame: 5 years
5-year overall survival rate
5 years
Estimated blood loss
Time Frame: Intraoperative
The mean estimated blood loss
Intraoperative
First flatus
Time Frame: 30 days
The time to first flatus
30 days
First liquid diet
Time Frame: 30 days
The time to liquid diet
30 days
Hospital stay
Time Frame: 30 days
Postoperative hospital stay
30 days

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Wei Wang, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Principal Investigator: Wenjun Xiong, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

March 28, 2017

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

April 1, 2020

Study Completion (Anticipated)

April 1, 2022

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 7, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 12, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

April 17, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 17, 2017

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 12, 2017

Last Verified

April 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • GDPHCM-GI-02

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

No

IPD Plan Description

The data has not been published.

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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