Effects of Neoadjuvant Intraperitoneal/Systemic Chemotherapy (Bidirectional Chemotherapy) for the Treatment of Patients with Peritoneal Metastasis from Gastric Cancer

Table 1

Clinicopathologic characteristics of 96 primary gastric cancer patients with PC.

	Results	CRS (𝑁=82)	No operation (𝑁=14)
Age, years (median)	25–76 (51.3)	25–74 (52.2)	28–75 (46.9)
Gender (male/female)	42/54	34/48	8/6
Histologic type
Differentiated		3	1
Poorly differentiated		79	13
Lymph node metastasis
pN0		16
pN1		40
pN2		17
pN3		9
Macroscopic type
Type 3		16	3
Type 4		66	11
Liver metastasis	0	0	0
Completeness of cytoreduction
Complete cytoreduction (CC-0)		61
Incomplete cytoreduction (CC-1~3)		21
Hyperthermic intraoperative chemotherapy (HIPEC)
Done		53
Not done	29