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Gastric CA - a story of two diseases Flashcards

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What are risk factors for gastric CA?

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Risk factors
• H Pylori
• Previous gastric surgery
• Pernicious Anemia/ Adenamatous polyps – hypochloremic state
• Chronic atrophic gastritis – predisposes to metaplasia
• Radiation exposure

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Features of early GC

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Early is confined to the mucosa without lymph node spread.
• Type 1 – polyp no sub mucosal involvement
• Type 2a, 2b, 2c- elvevated, flat, depressed respectively
• Type 3 Excavated /ulcerated

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Features of late GC - Borrman classification

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Late/Advanced has progressed beyond the mucosa
Type 1 Fungating
Type 2 Ulcerated - raised everted edges with a necrotic base and surrounding mucosal infiltration
Type 3 Ulceratioon with inf
Type 4 infiltration - no lesion- wall of the stomach is invaded by malignancy and this causes a desmotic reaction where the stomah becomes contracted, shortened and hypoperistaltic, lining is plastica type aka leather bottle

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Mechanisms of spread?

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Direct - through stomach wall, to adjacent organs eg posteriorly may spread to pancreas, from pyloric region distal spread into the duodenum, and proximally in GE junction /esophagus

Lymphatic - lymphatic spread is along named vessels D1 spread - along the epiploic greater/lesser curve D2 is along the right and left gastric short gastric and right and left gastroepiploic
D3 - preaortic group of nodes - celiac
D4 - paraaortic nodes

Hematogenous - by venous emboli usually through the portal system - usually goes to the liver or lung

Transcelomic - spreads through and into the peritoneal cavity. cells break off and implant onto the peritoneal cavity causeing ascites - or spreads onto a fertile ovary and gives mucinous ovarian tumor (krukenburg tumors)

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Presentation of gastric cancer

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early gastric are asymptomatic

late gastric presents with 
indigestion
nausea/vomiting 
postprandial fullness
loss of appetite 
melena 
hematemesis 
weight loss 
dysphagia
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Physical signs of GC

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  • Dehydrated
  • cachexic and starved
  • ascites
  • pleural or peritoneal effusion
  • jaundice due to liver involvement due to obstruction of hepatic bile duct
  • gastric outlet obstruction
  • peristaltic waves of the stomach
  • succusion splash - when you shake them around its like youre shaking water in a bottle due to retained fluid in the stomach
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what electrolyte derangements does pyloric outlet obstruction syndrome cause

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when the pyloric outlet is blocked the vomiting which occurs is with a closed pylorus - this vomiting is usually non bilious

gastric juice contains sodium pottasium choride

Hypomatremia, hypochloremia, hypokalemia occurs and body becomes alkalotic and a metabolic alkalosis occurs

Paradoxical aciduria occurs even though the body is alkalotic. This happens because you have lost so much sodium that the kidney is holding on ot all the sodium in the body it can . it does this by exchanging with intracellular pottasium which you pass out in urine, as you get more and more hypokalemic the body can no longer put out pottassium so it puts out hydrogen ions and thats why urine is acidic

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What blood investigations are done in advanced GC

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  • CBC - anemia
  • Electrolytes - especially in outlet obstruction syndrome
  • Liver Function tests - secondary mets or jaundice
  • Tumor markers CEA, CA 19-9 any genetic predispositions and for follow up of the patient later on
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What imaging is done in GC?

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  • Upper GI endoscopy - GOLD STANDARD
  • Chest Radiograph - looking for pleural effusions
  • Double contrast GI series
  • CT MRI
  • Endoscopic ultrasound - ultrasound stomach wall from inside the stomach especially in early cancer detection this is especially important as you can see all layers of the stomach and nodes. It also helps determine spread to nodes and adjacent organs.

normally do upperGI endoscopy with endoscopic ultrasound and CT/MRI

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Huge J shaped stomach with retention of barium

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Indicative of outlet obstruction syndrome

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What is perioperative preparation for GC?

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  1. Correction of electrolytes - rehydrate with IV fluid FIRST - N/S - hold off on K replacement initially until they are passing enough urine as if you don’t you can cause a hyperkalemia and kill them. After they are passing enough urine you can correct K.

Pottasium correction 40-60 meq per day in 70kg person - may need up to 100.

  1. Transfusion
  2. Cardiopulmonary assessment and optimization
  3. Pass nasogastric tube
  4. Stomach lavage - if vomiting wash stomach out with saline as you need a fairly clean stomach to perform the surgery on. we don’t want to spill the stomach contents into the peritoneum when operating
  5. Antibiotics
  6. Anticoagulants - thromboembolic prophylaxis
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What operation is done in advanced GC?

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We dissect based on the nodes which are affected eg. D1, D2, D3 etc

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Patients with early gastric cancer treatment options

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endoscopic mucosectomy- gel injected to elevate the mucosa and usind diathermy the polyp is resected.

After
Use Proton pump inhibitors and allow them to heal.

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What is chromoendoscopy

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chromoendoscopy is used for screening in high risk persons by injecting die to see varying appearance of mucosa in stomach

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Most common site of gastric cancer

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Pyloric region

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Outline modes of gastric reconstruction in advanced GC.

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when resecting do so 5cm above and below the tumor to create a safe margin. Take involved nodes as well

For distal stomach tumors:

BILLROTH 2 GASTRECTOMY
The resulting open end of the duodenum is closed off with staples or sutures and the jejenum is brought up and connected to the stomach in an operation called a Gastrojejunosotmy (Billroth 2 gastrectomy)

BILLROTH 1 GASTRECTOMY
The remaining stomach is joined to the exposed duodenum.

ROUX en Y
For proximal stomach tumors
May have to go into the esophagus and basically you have to do a total gastrectomy - take out the stomach and distal end of duodenum is attached to the esophojejunostomy and jejunojejunostomy. each anastamoses must be at least 8cm from each other to prevent reflux of bile up into the esophagus

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what other forms of therapy exist for GC

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  1. adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemo
  2. radiotherapy
  3. palliative surgery
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post operative syndromes

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  1. DUMPING - food goes straight into the small intestine as there is no sphincter. The patient ends up having hypotension and having to lay down after eating
  2. BILIOUS VOMITING
    patient may get bile reflux especially with Bill Roth 2 - bile alone comes up in the mouth- no food. Bile goes up if the afferent limb becomes partialy obstructed and when this build up is releived it flies up into the esophaguus
  3. MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA
    this occurs in total gastrectomy , must give patient b12 supplementation parenterally
  4. BLIND LOOP SYNDROME
    With the DUodenum being a blind loop there is growth of anaerobes and they split the bile salts into bile acids which malabsorb fat which leads to diarrhea. given antibiotics to remove bacterial overload
  5. DIARRHOEA
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Intractable bilary reflux after billroth 2 is treated by

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doing a roux en y

20
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Where is iron mainly absorbed?

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In the duodenum so when the duodenum is resected then there may be issues with iron absorption and an Iron deficiency anemia occurs.

21
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Peak incidence in gastric cancer

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7th decade of life

22
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Which gastric cancer is more prevalent

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distal but proximal is increasing

23
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What causes Berkitts disease of the throat?

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Ebstein Barr virus

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Outline Lauren classification

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  1. diffuse gastric adenocarcinomas - germ line- tends to be younger - CDH1 for example, signet ring cells, spread transmural spread growing thorugh the wall so intraperitoneal mets are frequent - on endoscopy you see ulcers - NO MASS
  2. intestinal gastric adenocarcionomas - gives a MASS and due to environmental etiologies, more common in men, increases with age - spread hematogenously
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What are the layers of the stomach, large bowel, small bowel?

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mucoas
submucosa
muscularis 
subserosal
serosal layer

rectum doesnt have a serosa but most parts do

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What do you consider in hx for gastric cancer?

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nausea, dysphagia, postprandial fullness (soon as you start to eat you feel full), loss of appetite, melena, hematemisis, weight loss, abdominal pain

proximal tumors commonly cause dysphagia

distal or antral tumors result in nausea and vomiting

linitis plastica causing early satiety

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What are the physical signs?

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Seen in LATE/ADVANCED DISEASE

large stomach 
succusion splash 
hepatomegaly 
umbilicus - sister mary joseph nodule
virchows node 
krukenburg tumors 
blumer shelf - fold of peritoneum with cancer in to felt on digital rectal exam

weight loss
melena
anemia

paraneoplastic syndromes - acanthosis nigricans, peripheral thrombophlebitis

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Differentials for Gastric cancer?

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Any foregut pathology

esophageal cancer 
esophageal stricture esophagitis
gastric ulcers 
acute gastritis 
atrophic gastritis
chronic gastritis
non hodgkins lymphoma

liver /bile pathology
cholelithiasis
hepatitis

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how do you investigate ?

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  1. BLOOD - general and specific
    General - CBC for anemia, coagulopathy, smear to see if megaloblastic, iron deficiency due to bleeding etc. U&E - can have derangements hypo-Na, Cl, K, urea and creatinine high due to dehydration LFT derangement - obstructive picture - cant give chemo to a person with liver enzyme derangements
    Specific- CEA, CA19-9, AFP
  2. ENDOSCOPY (99% diagnostic) GOLD STANDARD
    I want a minimum of 6 biopsies of the tumor so sample is representative
  3. BARIUM MEAL (used in the olden days)
  4. CT CHEST ABDOMEN PELVIS
  5. CHEST XRAY - if nothing else available not very
  6. ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND
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What signs would be seen on antral GC on barium meal

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concentric narrowing of the distal pylorus and a trickle of barium going through called the bird beak sign - thus there is gastric outlet obstruction

also shouldering tells us it is concentric

Mega stomach is also present -stomach will be enlarged

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What is seen in malignant lymph nodes?

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  1. shape is deformed (no longer kidney shaped)
  2. lymph node cortical thickening - cortex >2mm in size
  3. shadowing
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Definitions of T staging in early and advanced gastric cancer

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gastric cancer confined to mucosa T1A is early gastric cancer

T1B - submucosa onward is advanced gastric cancer

positive peritoneal cytology is considered METASTATIC / DISTANT disease - STAGE 4

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The following factors are associated with peritoneal recurrence…

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  1. younger patient age
  2. diffuse histotype
  3. presence of infiltrative disease
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What is minimum lymph nodes for adequate lymphadenectomy ?

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minimum lymph nodes for adequate lymphadenectomy is 16 nodes corresponding to D2 resection

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Surgeries for treatment of gastric cancer

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  1. proximal mass - Total gastrectomy
  2. GE junction mass- eosopahgogastrectomy - IVOR lewis gastrectomy
  3. distal mass - Subtotal gastrectomy
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What endoscopic techniques can be used for treatment in GC?

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FOR EARLY CANCER ONLY

  1. Endoscopic mucosal resection <1.5cm, flat or raised lesions

2, Endoscopic submucosal resection >1.5cm and flat

cannot be done for peptic ulcer disease

confined to mucosa

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complications of gastric cancer

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anastomotic leak
bleeding,
ileus

38
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Chemo therapy regimes

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  1. Magic protocol- sandwich protocol= 3 cycles ECF (epirubisin cyclophosphamide and 5 -flurouracil) given 3 rounds before surgery and 3 after surgery
  2. Mcdonald protocol - operate and give chemoradiation - effectiveness the same for both procedures

newer regimes - Flott etc.

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