Surgery in Treating Patients With Liver Metastasis From a Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GISTs)
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor, Metastatic Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor focused on measuring gastrointestinal stromal tumor, liver metastases
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)
Hepatic metastasis meeting the following criteria:
- Clinically diagnosed as surgically resectable with no macroscopic residual tumor
- No more than 3 hepatic metastases
- Synchronous hepatic metastasis allowed provided primary tumor is also resectable
- Does not require radiofrequency ablation and/or microwave coagulation therapy to control the disease
- No extrahepatic metastasis
- No history of GIST recurrence
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- ECOG performance status 0-1
- Leukocyte count ≥ 3,000/μL
- Neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/μL
- Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL
- Platelet count ≥ 75,000/μL
- Total bilirubin ≤ 2.0 mg/dL
- ALT and AST < 120 IU/L
- GTP < 210 IU/L
- Not pregnant
- No poorly controlled diabetes mellitus
- No NYHA class III-IV cardiac function
- No hepatitis B or hepatitis B carriers
- No other malignancy requiring treatment
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- See Disease Characteristics
- No prior interventional radiology for metastatic disease
- No prior or concurrent imatinib mesylate
- No other concurrent treatment
Sites / Locations
- Aichi Cancer Center
- Aichi Medical University
- Hirosaki University, School of Medicine
- National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center
- Hokkaido University Hospital
- Iwate Medical University Hospital
- Kanagawa Cancer Center
- International Goodwill Hospital
- Kochi Medical School
- Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital
- University of Miyazaki Hospital
- Niigata Prefectural Central Hospital
- Nagaoka Chuo General Hospital
- Kawasaki Medical School
- Ryukyu University Hospital
- Sakai Municipal Hospital
- Osaka University Hospital
- Toyonaka Municipal Hospital
- Saitama Medical University International Medical Center
- Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
- University of Yamanashi Hospital
- Kyushu University Hospital
- Fukushima Medical University Hospital
- Kagoshima University
- Kimitsu Chuo Hospital
- Kochi Health Sciences Center
- Kumamoto University Hospital
- Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital
- Niigata Cancer Center Hospital
- Okayama University Hospital
- Juntendo University Shizuoka Hospital
- Shizuoka Cancer Center
- Tokushima University Hospital
- Tokyo Metropolitan - Komagome Hospital
- Keio University Hospital
- Toyama University Hospital
- Yamagata University Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
therapeutic conventional surgery
All patients undergo suegery to achieve macroscopic complete resection within 28 days after enrollment (including enrollment day). As long as tumor free margin is ensured, all resection margin distances and all surgical procedure are accepted. Surgical treatment in this study excludes the following, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) without resection of liver only or microwave coagulation therapy (MCT) only; for RFA or MCT is used as additional treatment under judgment of primary physician for new liver tumor which comfirmed during surgery in different parts of liver except portion scheduled for resection, RFA and MCT are included. After histological curative resection, patients are observed without treatment until comfirming recurrence. Patients with incomplete tumor removal are withdrawn from protcol treatment and receive imatinib treatment, 400 mg/day orally. For reccurrence is comfirmed, patients receive imatinib treatment, 400 mg/day orally.