Palliative distal gastrectomy offers no survival benefit over gastrojejunostomy for gastric cancer with outlet obstruction: retrospective analysis of an 11-year experience

Table 1 Characteristics of 43 patients undergoing gastrojejunostomy or palliative distal gastrectomy

	Gastrojejunostomy	Gastrectomy	P value
	(n = 25)	(n = 18)	P value
Sex
Male:female	17:8	10:8	0.40
Age
Median (range)	70 (52–82)	74 (44–88)	0.42
Histology
Intestinal:diffuse	16:9	6:12	0.05
Staging
Direct invasion to neighboring organ(s)	22	2	<0.0001
Peritoneal metastasis	19	13	0.78
Liver metastasis	4	3	0.95
Distant lymph node metastasis	6	4	0.89
Stage
IIIC:IV	4:21	1:17	0.29
ECOG PS
0:1:2:3	13:10:2:0	11:3:1:3	0.87
Preoperative GOOSS
0:1:2:3	15:8:1:1	6:5:1:6	0.02
Number of patients with preoperative TPN	16	5	0.02

ECOG, European Clinical Oncology Group; GOOSS, Gastric outlet obstruction scoring system; TPN, Total parenteral nutrition.

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