Survival following microscopically confirmed radical resection of N0 gastric cancer.
In a series of 128 patients operated on for gastric cancer, 27 satisfied microscopic criteria for radical resection. The median age of these patients was 72.3 (range 36-84) years at operation; the median hospital stay after surgery was 12.9 days. The median observation time was 3.8 years and the crude 5-year survival rate 48 per cent. Older patients did remarkably well. No significant difference was found in the number of survivors, survival-observation time or hospital stay in the age groups 55-64, 65-74 or 75-84 years. Thus, age alone should not be considered a barrier to curative surgical treatment. When the study was ended, 12 of the 27 patients who underwent microscopically confirmed radical resection were still alive; six had died from recurrent gastric cancer and nine from other causes. At 5 years after microscopically confirmed radical resection for gastric carcinoma, the gastric cancer-specific mortality rate was 23 per cent.
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Department of Surgery, Frederiksberg Hospital, Denmark.
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016019:Survival Analysis