Review of Surgical Cases of Gastric Cancer

VernacularTitle:福島県県南地域の胃癌手術例の検討
Author: Nobuyuki KOBAYASHI ; Fusakuni KURODA ; Takashi DOI ; Makoto KINOUCHI ; Yasuhiro WATANABE ; Akira ODA ; Naoyuki KANEKO
Publication Type:Journal Article
From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 2003;51(6):939-943
CountryJapan
Language:Japanese
Abstract: This paper describes a clinical review of cases of gastric cancer treated surgically at the Department of Surgery of the Shirakawa Kosei General Hospital, the core medical institution in the southern part of Fukushima Prefecture.
During the period of 20 years from January 1981 through December 2000, a total of 1, 132 cases were operated on for gastric carcinoma. Surgical resection cases totaled 1, 023 (resection ratio: 90.4%); curative resection cases, 894 (curative resection ratio: 79.0%); 5-year survival rate for resection cases, 68.3%; and 5-year survival rate for curative resection cases, 75.6%. When the cases were divided into those treated during the first half of the 20 years nad those treated during the latter half of the 20 years, the number or resection cases was smaller during the latter than during the first half but the resection ratio was larger. The early stomach cancer cases in terms of the degree of progress, histological classification, depth and metastasis to lymph nodes have been increasing and the 5-year survival rate has been on the rise.