Potentially curable gastric adenocarcinoma (GAC) patients treated without surgery.
120 Background: Surgery is the best option to cure localized GAC. When surgery is not possible due to comorbidities or patient refusal, definitive chemoradiation is an option. We report on one of the largest cohorts of GAC patients who did not have surgery. Methods: We identified 71 patients with localized GAC who received chemo/chemoradiation therapy but did not have surgery. We assessed various endpoints (overall survival [OS] and recurrence-free survival [RFS]). Clinical complete response (cCR; negative post therapy biopsy and no evidence of cancer by imaging) was also assessed. Results: The median follow-up time was 1.8 years (range; 0.4-10.6). Most of the patients were men (64.8%) and the median age was 73 years (range; 30-96). Reason for not having surgery included comorbidities in 34 (47.9%), poor performance status 14 (19.7%), and patient refusal 23 (32.4%). Most of the patients (80.3%) received chemoradiation and 14 (19.7%) could receive only chemotherapy. Of all 71 patients, 32 (45.1%) achieved to a cCR. For the entire cohort, the median OS was 2.1 years (95% Cl 0.98-1.02). The estimated OS rates at 2 and 5 years were 46.5% and 11.3%, respectively. The median OS and the median RFS for patients with cCR were 2.3 and 1.8 years (95% Cl 0.97-1.01), respectively. Female gender (HR 0.47, 95% Cl 0.25-0.91, p = 0.024) and chemoradiation (HR 0.36, 95% Cl 0.16-0.85; p = 0.019) were independently associated with longer OS in the multivariate analysis. Histologic grade and the presence of signet ring cell had no effect on OS. Conclusions: Our data show that patients with localized GAC who do not undergo surgery have a low but measurable 5-year OS rate of 11.3%.