Survival following microscopically confirmed radical resection of N0 gastric cancer
✍ Scribed by Dr E. Brems-Dalgaard; H. V. Clausen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 304 KB
- Volume
- 80
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In a series of 128 patients operated on for gastric cancer, 27 satisfied microscopic criteria for radical resection. The median age of these patients was 72·3 (range 36-84) years at operation; the median hospital stay after surgery was 12·9 days. The median observation time was 3·8 years and the crude 5-year survival rate 48 per cent. Older patients did remarkably well. No significant difference was found in the number of survivors, survival-observation time or hospital stay in the age groups 55–64, 65–74 or 75–84 years. Thus, age alone should not be considered a barrier to curative surgical treatment. When the study was ended, 12 of the 27 patients who underwent microscopically confirmed radical resection were still alive; six had died from recurrent gastric cancer and nine from other causes. At 5 years after microscopically confirmed radical resection for gastric carcinoma, the gastric cancer-specific mortality rate was 23 per cent.