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Brief Title: The Predictive Value of Complement C3 in Patients With Advanced Gastric Cancer
Official Title: The Relationship Between Complement C3 Depletion and Metastatic Gastric Cancer: A Prospective Pilot Study
Study ID: NCT02425930
Brief Summary: This study is designed to investigate whether complement C3 depletion is associated with poor short-term outcomes in postoperative patients with gastric cancer.
Detailed Description: The complement system plays an important role in the development of digestive malignancies. The complement C3 is the point of convergence for the three complement activation pathways. However, the concrete effect of C3 in the development of gastric cancer is still obscured. This study is designed to explore whether complement C3 can be regarded as a predictive factor of postoperative outcomes for postoperative patients with gastric cancer. This study is designed as a prospective cohort study and included consecutively treated patients. The perioperative plasma value of complement components, such as C3, C4, and CH50, are detected to explore the incidence rate of complement depletion. All enrolled patients are divided into two groups mainly according to the levels of preoperative C3 levels (C3 depletion and Non-C3 depletion groups). The primary endpoints are the 1-year overall survival and disease-free survival, while the secondary endpoints are postoperative complications, length of hospital stay, and hospital charges. This study would be helpful to confirm the role of complement depletion in anticipated outcomes of postoperative patients with gastric cancer.
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Name: Yulong He, MD
Affiliation: First Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR