title: Cancer of the stomach. Review of consecutive ten year intervals.
abstract: Records were reviewed for all patients who underwent primary treatment for adenocarcinoma of the stomach at two UCLA hospitals between 1956 and 1975. Division of the data into two, ten-year time periods reveals a pattern of unchanging presentation and pathologic characteristics which probably accounts for the unaltered response to operative therapy. The consistency of certain prognostic findings justifies a surgical approach in which extensive resections are only selectively employed.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D012737:Sex Factors; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors