title: Unfavorable survival rates in Iranian patients with gastric cancers: a single center experience from Tehran.
abstract: We examined the effect of potential interfering factors that play major roles in the outcome of our patients with stomach cancer. 100 consecutive patients diagnosed with gastric cancers were prospectively observed, treated and followed from November 2009 to January. Absence of Helicobacter pylori infection (P=0.027), absence of vascularisation (P<0.001), and undetermined histopathological type of adenocarcinoma (P=0.003) were factors significantly associated with higher grade of gastric lesions. Life tables were used to define survival of gastric cancers. Survival rates of these patients at 1st week, 1st month, 2nd month, 3rd month, and 6th month were 97%, 96%, 91%, 90%, and 82%, respectively. The only determinant of 6 months of survival was age over 68 (P=0.039). Our study confirms our previous knowledge that gastric cancers have unfavorable outcome in Iran.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology & Liver Disease, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. taherimd@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Khedmat
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology & Liver Disease, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. taherimd@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Mohsen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amini
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology & Liver Disease, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. taherimd@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Mohammad Ebrahim
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Ghamar-Chehreh
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology & Liver Disease, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. taherimd@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Dr. Taheri Medical Research Group, Tehran, Iran. taherimd@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Saeed
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Taheri
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D015993:Life Tables; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D060787:Neoplasm Grading; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D015996:Survival Rate