title: [Survival for digestive system tumors: Italian population-based data and international comparisons].
abstract: Survival for malignant tumour of the upper digestive tract, oesophagus, stomach and pancreas are analysed from the data of 5042 cases observed during the period 1976-1985 by the Italian cancer registries (CRs) of Varese, Latina, Ragusa and Florence. Three-year relative survival rates were 42% for patients with tumours of the upper digestive tract and 7% for those tumour of the oesophagus. Five-year relative survival for patients with stomach cancer was 20%. A worse prognosis was found for cases from the Latina and Ragusa CRs. One-year relative survival for patients with pancreatitic cancer was 17%. Younger age, histologic confirmation, period of diagnosis (for upper tract, stomach and pancreatitic cancers), and female gender (for tumours of the upper tract) resulted as positively associated to survival.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Epidemiologia, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gatta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sant
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Micheli
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Capocaccia
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Verdecchia
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barchielli
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gafà
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ramazzotti
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Berrino
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004067:Digestive System Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012042:Registries; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate