Table 2 Patient, surgery and morbidity data
From: Gastric carcinoma: review of the results of treatment in a community teaching hospital
No. of patients | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Tumour location | |||
Antrum | 109 | 46 | |
Corpus | 44 | 19 | |
Fundus | 2 | 1 | |
Overlap | 13 | 6 | |
Cardia | 28 | 12 | |
Whole stomach | 22 | 9 | |
Residual stomach | 11 | 5 | |
Unknown | 6 | 3 | |
Tumour type | |||
Adenocarcinoma | 235 | 100 | |
Stage | |||
Ia | 12 | 5 | |
Ib | 30 | 13 | |
II | 33 | 14 | |
IIIa | 55 | 23 | |
IIIb | 9 | 4 | |
IV | 88 | 37 | |
Unknown | 8 | 3 | |
Surgery | |||
Curative resection | 118 | 50 | |
Palliative resection | 51 | 22 | |
Palliative surgery | 23 | 10 | |
Explorative surgery | 43 | 18 | |
Postoperative morbidity | |||
93 | 40 | ||
Adjuvant therapy | |||
37 | 16 |