1844P Effectiveness of normal saline solution in maintaining the permeability of totally implantable venous catheters in adult cancer patients: Experience of an oncologic center

Abstract

aimed at evaluating the preliminary effect of electro-acupuncture (EA) for improving quality of life in gastric cancer patients undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy.Methods: Patients who has accepted R0 resection for gastric cancer, and who will receive adjuvant chemotherapy were randomly assigned to receive high-dose of EA (7 times each chemo-cycle for 3 cycles), low-dose of EA (3 times each chemo-cycle for 3 cycles), or no acupuncture. Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Gastric (FACT-Ga) was reported by the patients at baseline and then once a week during the therapy. Primary endpoint was the total area under curves (AUCs) of FACT-Ga Trial Outcome Index (TOI) during the 3 cycles of chemotherapy, calculated by linear interpolation, among the groups. Secondary endpoints included the AUCs of FACT-Ga Gastric Cancer Subscale (GaCS), and FACT-Ga score among the groups.