Assessment of clinico- pathological factors in gastric cancer: a retrospective study

Abstract

Aim: to assess clinico- pathological factors in gastric cancer.  Material and Methods: This retrospective study was carried out in the Department of Pathology, Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India from 1 year. Total 600 patients were included in this study. Results: Of these 600 patients, 370 (61.67%) underwent distal gastrectomy, 24 (4%) proximal gastrectomy via abdomen and 145 (24.17%) via thorax, and 61 (10.16%) underwent total gastrectomy. Distal and total gastrectomy had more numbers of clearances of lymph nodes than the other operational approaches. The postoperative complications occurred in 51 patients 51/600, 8.5%.The overall mortality was 0.66% (4/600).The diameter of the neoplasm was positively correlated with the depth of infiltration and lymphatic metastasis rate while hemoglobin was the opposite. 92 (15.33%) of 600 were early gastric carcinoma (EGC) with metastasis of lymph nodes in 12 patients (12/92, 13.04%). Conclusion: This retrospective study has shown that clinicopathological characters in gastric cancer varied with sex, location, and diameter of the tumor.

Keywords: gastric cancer, gender, location, size