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Sakamoto, J. et al.

Sakamoto, Morita, Oba, Matsui, Kobayashi, Nakazato, Ohashi,

Efficacy of adjuvant immunochemotherapy with polysaccharide K for patients with curatively resected colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis of centrally randomized controlled clinical trials.

The benefits of immunochemotherapy employing the biological response modifier polysaccharide K ( PSK) for patients with curatively resected colorectal cancer was reassessed by means of a meta-analysis of data with center randomization from 1,094 patients enrolled in three clinical trials. In all three trials, patients were followed up for at least 5 years after surgery and enrollment of the last patient and outcomes for standard chemotherapy were compared with those for chemotherapy plus PSK. The endpoints were overall survival and disease-free survival; and intent-to-treat analysis was performed without patient exclusion. Data were analyzed using the weighted average of the individual log hazard ratios. The overall survival risk ratio for all eligible patients was 0.71 (95% confidence interval (CI) : 0.55-0.90; P=0.006), and the disease-free survival risk ratio was 0.72 (95% CI: 0.58-0.90; P=0.003). The results of this meta-analysis suggest that adjuvant immunochemotherapy with PSK can improve both survival and disease-free survival of patients with curatively resected colorectal cancer.[1]

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Efficacy of adjuvant immunochemotherapy with polysaccharide K for patients with curatively resected colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis of centrally randomized controlled clinical trials. Sakamoto, J., Morita, S., Oba, K., Matsui, T., Kobayashi, M., Nakazato, H., Ohashi, Y. Cancer Immunol. Immunother. (2006) [Pubmed]

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