Status:

COMPLETED

Obestatin Change in Distal Gastrectomy

Lead Sponsor:

Samsung Medical Center

Conditions:

Gastric Cancer Patients Treated by Subtotal Gastrectomy

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

According to Seoul cancer registry data (2000), cancer became the leading cause of death in Korea, accounting for 23.9% of all deaths and gastric cancer is the most prevalent malignant neoplasm, compr...

Detailed Description

The below is the items to be included in the study. * diet evaluation: standard three-day diet evaluation table (Dept. of Nutrition) * body weight and height: BMI . * ELISA for plasma ghrelin, leptin...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • patients with informed consent
  • gastric cancer patients treated by subtotal gastrectomy (without chemotherapy or radiation therapy) : Actually the differentiation of EGC or AGC depend on the depth of invasion. Therefore if the patients are not cachetic because of metastasis or tumor burden, there is no need toe exclude the AGC patients from the study.

Exclusion

  • patients with chemotherapy or radiation therapy diabetes mellitus: It has been reported that plasma ghrelin is influenced by the insulin. Thus a history of diabetes exclude the enrollment of the protocol.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2005

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

July 1 2007

Estimated Enrollment :

100 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00822718

Start Date

January 1 2005

End Date

July 1 2007

Last Update

January 14 2009

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