• Dimitrios Schizas, Konstantinos S Mylonas, Athanasios Syllaios, Emmanouil I Kapetanakis, Natasha Hasemaki, Vasileia Ntomi, Adamantios Michalinos, Nikoletta A Theochari, Christina A Theochari, Sylvia Krivan, Maria Mpoura, Anargyros Bakopoulos, Ioannis Karavokyros, and Theodoros Liakakos.
• First Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laikon General Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.
• Medicina (Kaunas). 2022 Dec 5; 58 (12).

AbstractBackground and Objectives: Encouraging data have been reported from referral centers following gastrointestinal cancer surgery. Our goal was to retrospectively review patient outcomes following gastrectomy for gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer at a high-volume unit of the University of Athens. Methods: The enrollment period was from June 2003 to September 2018. Disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. Cox proportional hazard models were constructed to identify variables independently associated with time-to-event outcomes. Results: A total of 205 patients were analyzed. R0 resection was achieved in 183 (89.3%) patients and was more likely to occur following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (p = 0.008). Recurrence developed in 46.6% of our cohort and the median disease-free survival was 31.2 months. On multivariate analysis, only staging (HR = 2.15; 95% CI: 1.06-4.36) was independently associated with increased risk of recurrence. All-cause mortality was 57.2% and the median time of death was 40.9 months. On multivariate regression, staging (HR: 1.35; 95% CI: 1.11-1.65) and recurrence (HR: 2.87; 95% CI: 1.32-6.22) predicted inferior prognosis. Conclusions: Gastrectomy at the University of Athens has yielded favorable outcomes for patients with GEJ cancer.

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