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Background: This study was to investigate the prognostic factors of patients with advanced gastric cancer and described a sample model to better differentiate the patients who could better benefit from palliative chemotherapy.

Patients And Methods: In this retrospective study, 112 gastric cancer patients at stage IV following first-line chemotherapy were enrolled from July 2013 to September 2019. The clinical factors including age, sex, ECOG, pathologic types, metastatic sites, blood indexes, response of first-line chemotherapy, and survival were collected. The treatment responses were evaluated using the response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST). The survival curves were drawn by the Kaplan-Meier method, and the independent prognostic factors of overall survival (OS) were analyzed by Cox proportional hazards regression model.

Results: In this study, the median overall survival (mOS) of gastric cancer patients was 10.5 months, the disease remission rate (PR) was 21.4%, and the disease control rate (DCR) was 86.6%. Multivariate analysis identified 5 independent prognostic factors: peritoneal metastasis [ = 0.002; hazard risk (HR), 2.394; 95% CI 1.394-4.113], hemoglobin <90g/L [ = 0.001; hazard risk (HR), 2.674; 95% CI 1.536-4.655], LDH ≥225 U/L [ = 0.033; hazard risk (HR), 1.818; 95% CI 1.409-3.150], and 3 times higher level of CEA [ = 0.006; hazard risk (HR), 2.123; 95% CI 1.238-3.640] along with CA199 [ = 0.005; hazard risk (HR), 2.544; 95% CI 1.332-4.856] than upper limit of normal. Based on the obtained data, a prognostic index was constructed, dividing the patients into three risk groups: low ( = 67), intermediate ( = 35), and high-risk group ( = 10). The mOS for low, intermediate, and high-risk groups was 13.9 months (95% CI 10.7-17.1), 8.1 months (95% CI 5.7-10.4), and 3.9 months (95% CI 2.6-5.3), respectively, whereas the 1-year survival rate was 56.4%, 20.0%, and 0.0%, respectively ( < 0.001).

Conclusion: This model should facilitate the prediction of treatment outcomes and then individualized treatment of advanced gastric cancer patients.

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