title: Prospective randomized controlled study on bestatin in resectable gastric cancer.
abstract: The efficacy of Bestatin as adjuvant immunochemotherapy in patients with resectable gastric cancer was investigated. Ninety-six patients with similar background factors were randomized into 2 groups: a control group and an experimental group, the patients in the latter group receiving a daily oral dose of 60 mg Bestatin over a long period. All 96 patients were treated with a bolus intravenous injection of mitomycin C (MMC) plus oral administration of tegafur (FT-207, FT). The survival rate of the patients in the MMC+FT+Bestatin group was more favorable than that of the patients in the MMC+FT group, but the difference was not statistically significant. The survival rates of the MMC+FT+Bestatin group patients in the stratification of stage III+IV and positive histological serosal invasion, ps(+), were significantly superior to those of the MMC+FT group patients (Logrank test: p less than 0.05). Moreover, in patients with positive histological serosal invasion, the recurrence of peritoneal dissemination was significantly suppressed in the MMC+FT+Bestatin group.
authors.affiliation: Niimoto Clinic, Hiroshima, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Niimoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hattori
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D006801:Humans; D007930:Leucine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged; D008937:Mitomycins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D005641:Tegafur / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic; D008937:Mitomycins; D005641:Tegafur; D007930:Leucine; C012211:ubenimex