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Gastric malignancy: Ten year experience at a community teaching hospital
Author(s) -
Ruggiero Robert P.,
Fischer Sharon
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930200213
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , cancer , gastric carcinoma , general surgery , dilemma , surgery , philosophy , epistemology
A ten‐year review of gastric malignancy was undertaken and several factors examined. The degree of organ involvement played a significant role in determination of survival. Surgical resection, either palliative or curative, was associated with a more favorable short‐term survival and bypass alone appeared to add nothing to patient survival time. The general lack of symptoms in early gastric cancer appears to be a major determinant of the advanced state of malignancy in these patients. Early screening may represent a partial solution to this dilemma.