Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: \- Patients with gastric cancer who will undergo a gastrectomy Exclusion Criteria: * Patients under 18 years old * Patients not in full understanding * Hemoglobin levels \> 155 g/l for women and \>167 g/l for men (upper reference limits for the laboratory of Helsinki University Hospital district) preoperatively. * Transferrin saturation level \>50% * Emergency gastrectomy * Palliative gastrectomy * Acute bacterial infection * Known hypersensitivity to the active substance, to ferric carboxymaltose or any of its excipients, or to other parental iron products * Clinical evidence of iron overload or disturbances in the utilisation of iron * Patients \<35 kg * Dialysis therapy for chronic renal failure * Hemochromatosis * Polycythemia vera * Pregnancy * Patients in need of direct blood transfusion ( Criteria for this are hemoglobin \< 80 g/l or \< 90 g/l if the patient is symptomatic or has a history of heart disease)