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. 2022 Oct;48(10):2132-2140.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2022.05.026. Epub 2022 Jun 1.

No detrimental effect of perioperative blood transfusion on recurrence in 2905 stage II/III gastric cancer patients: A propensity-score matching analysis

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No detrimental effect of perioperative blood transfusion on recurrence in 2905 stage II/III gastric cancer patients: A propensity-score matching analysis

Jeong Ho Song et al. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2022 Oct.

Abstract

Background: The effects of perioperative blood transfusion on the prognosis of gastric cancer patients remain controversial. This study aimed to assess the association between perioperative blood transfusion and survival outcomes.

Methods: The study included 2905 patients who underwent curative gastrectomy for stage II/III gastric cancer between 2006 and 2015 and were followed until 2018. Propensity-score matching was used to adjust for differences in baseline clinicopathologic characteristics between patients with or without blood transfusion.

Results: Of 2905 patients, 543 (18.7%) received a perioperative blood transfusion. Patients with blood transfusion had significantly worse overall survival and recurrence-free survival than those without blood transfusion (p < 0.001 for both). Survival outcomes did not differ according to timing of transfusion (preoperative, intraoperative, or postoperative), transfused volume (1-2 units of packed red cells vs ≥ 3 units of packed red blood cells), and volume of intraoperative blood loss (≤300 mL vs > 300 mL). After propensity-score matching adjusting for risk factors associated with blood transfusion, 498 patients were included in each group. Long-term recurrence-free survival was not significantly different between patients with or without blood transfusion in the matched analysis (p = 0.808).

Conclusions: In propensity-score matched analysis, blood transfusion was not associated with recurrence-free survival. Clinical circumstances, including demographic, pathologic, and surgical characteristics, rather than blood transfusions, appear to be the main prognostic factors for recurrence.

Keywords: Gastric cancer; Prognosis; Transfusion.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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