Combination Chemotherapy and Surgery in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced Stomach Cancer
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2006-03-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so
they stop growing or die. Combining more than one chemotherapy drug with surgery may kill
more tumor cells. It is not yet known if chemotherapy followed by surgery is more effective
than surgery followed by chemotherapy for stomach cancer.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying surgery followed by combination
chemotherapy to see how well it works compared to combination chemotherapy followed by
surgery in treating patients with locally advanced stomach cancer.