title: [A 20-year follow-up of surgical treatment of patients with stomach cancer].
abstract: A relationship between the long-term results of surgical treatment of gastric cancer patients, on the one hand, and such factors as sex, age, histologic and anatomical patterns of tumor, its size and site, on the other, is discussed. Out of 756 patients operated on within 1946-1958, 147 survived for 20 years and more; 35 of them lived until the age of 80 years and longer. The results point to some unfavorable factors influencing prognosis in a considerable number of patients who survive for long periods of time after radical surgery. This makes the case for individual prognosis still stronger. Thus, errors involving an unjustified extension of surgical intervention, on the one hand, and unjustified decision not to operate, on the other, may be avoided.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012737:Sex Factors; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Dvadtsatiletnie rezultaty khirurgicheskogo lecheniia bolnykh rakom zheludka.