[Adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with radical resection of stomach cancer: 5-year results of a prospective randomized study].

102 patients with operable gastric carcinoma were randomly allocated to untreated control, polychemotherapy, chemoimmunotherapy. At a median follow-up of 5 years, chemotherapy did not improve the overall survival rate. However, in certain subgroups, patients with lymphnode metastases and intestinal tumor type showed a significant survival benefit when treated with adjuvant chemotherapy. Furthermore, we found the site of first recurrence very closely related to the type of tumor histology. Regardless of the positive effect of chemotherapy in retrospective subset-analysis, we do not generally recommend the use of polychemotherapy in operable gastric carcinoma.