Journal of Cancer Therapy, 2013, 4, 1-5 1 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jct.2013.49A1001 Published Online October 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/jct) Estimation of Physiologic Ability and Surgical Stress Scoring System Appraises Laparoscopy-Assisted and Open Distal Gastrectomy in Treatment of Early Gastric Cancer* Hideki Bou1#, Hideyuki Suzuki1, Kentaro Maejima1, Hidetsugu Hanawa1, Masanori Watanabe1, Eiji Uchida2 1Institute of Gastroenterology, Nippon Medical School Musashi-kosugi Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan; 2Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan. Email: #
[email protected] Received July 24th, 2013; revised August 23rd, 2013; accepted August 30th, 2013 Copyright © 2013 Hideki Bou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) has been widely used to treat early gastric cancer (EGC). The Esti- mation of Physiologic Ability and Surgical Stress (E-PASS) scoring system predicts the risk of fatal postoperative com- plications by quantifying the patient’s reserve and degree of surgical stress, but there have been a few reports of use of the E-PASS scoring system to assess the risk of mortality following special types of surgical procedures such as LADG. In this study we assessed the feasibility of LADG versus open distal gastrectomy (ODG) by the E-PASS scoring system. The subjects of this study consisted of 69 stage IA gastric cancer patients who underwent LADG (LADG group) and 69 stage IA gastric cancer patients who underwent ODG (ODG group).