Neoadjuvant Combination Chemotherapy of DCS (Cisplatin + Docetaxel + S-1) and DCF (Docetaxel + Cisplatin + 5-FU) in Patients With Locally Advanced Gastric Adenocarcinoma

Number of patients planned The study adopted two parallel phase II studies, with the same P1 and P0 in each arm, suggested by Logan. The investigators hypothesized a target ORR of interest, P1=50, and a lower ORR, P0=25 with the treatment of DCS and DCF, respectively. Under the assumption of α-error=0.05 and β-error= 0.2, using sample size tables of A\'Hern, 26 patients were required per arm to achieve the desired statistical power. Finally, taking a 20% drop-out rate into consideration, the overall number of enrolled patients was 62.