The Relationship of Psychological Stress With Therapy Efficacy and Prognosis of Gastric Cancer

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18-80
SponsorFudan University

About this trial

This is the prospective, observational cohort study (G-Distress) to explore the associations of psychological stress with treatment and prognosis of gastric cancer. The participants including the patients diagnosed with gastric cancer who received surgery, chemotherapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Lower age limit of research subjects 18 years old and upper age limit of 80 years old, ECOG (ECOG score standard) performance status of 0 or 1

Be proven to be primary adenocarcinoma of gastric cancer and staged II-III by pathological evidences

R0 gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy

Receiving adjuvant chemotherapy

Disqualifiers

History of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy or target therapy

Multiple primary tumors

Suffering from other serious diseases, including cardiovascular, respiratory, kidney, or liver disease, complicated by poorly controlled hypertension, diabetes, mental disorders or diseases

Unavailable for R0 resection and D2 lymph node dissection.

Trial population

gastric cancer patients

Trial design

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Prospective

Treatments tested in this trial

  • psychological stress status

    Other intervention

    The assessment of depressive and anxiety symptoms was conducted using Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment 7 (GAD-7). Patients with a PHQ-9 score ≥ 5 or a GAD-7 score ≥ 5 were categorized as the stressed group.

Treatment groups

600 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups
Group A: Cohort 1: advanced gastric cancer patients receiving surgery1 intervention
Group B: Cohort 2: stage III-IV gastric cancer patients receiving preoperative treatment1 intervention
Group C: Cohort 3: stage IV gastric cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, immunotherapy or ta1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Cohort 1: Disease-free survival (DFS)

The duration between the date after surgery to the date of any recurrence or death firstly

Time frame
3-year
2

Cohort 2: Pathologic complete response (pCR) rate

Time frame
1-month
3

Cohort 3: Progression-free survival (PFS)

Time frame
1-year

Secondary outcomes

1

Overall survival (OS)

Time frame
3-year
2

Objective Response Rate

Time frame
through study completion, an average of 1 year
3

Quality of life assessed by EORTC QLQ-C30.

Time frame
3-year

Other outcomes

1

The correlation between gut microbiota and stress and prognosis

Time frame
3-year
2

The correlation between ctDNA and chronic stress and prognosis

Time frame
3-year
3

The correlation between tumor microenvironment signature and stress and prognosis

Time frame
3-year
4

The correlation between peripheral stress biomarker and immune cells signature and stress and prognosis

Time frame
3-year

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