Open AccessClinicopathologic features of gastric cancer in young patients
Author(s) -
Metin Şeker,
Sercan Aksoy,
Nuriye Özdemir,
Doğan Uncu,
Nurullah Zengi̇n
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the saudi journal of gastroenterology/saudi journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-4049
pISSN - 1319-3767
DOI - 10.4103/1319-3767.120876
Subject(s) - medicine , lymphovascular invasion , young adult , cancer , disease , perineural invasion , gastroenterology , metastasis
Gastric cancer (GC) is considered to be a disease of elderly patients. It has been suggested that GC in young adults has more aggressive clinical and pathologic features than in adults. In this study we aimed to evaluate clinical and pathologic features of GC under age 40 years.