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KMID : 0377220010260010064
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Medical Journal of Chosun Univercity
2001 Volume.26 No. 1 p.64 ~ p.71
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Survival Rates and Prognostic Factors in Patients Undergoing Curative Resection for Gastric carcinoma
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Cha Yun-Jeong
Park Jin-Young
Jang Jeong-Hwan
Kim Seong-Hwan
Kim Kweon-Cheon
Cho Hyun-Jin
Min Young-Don
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Abstract
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Background and Objectives: Gastric cancer is still the leading cause of cancer death in Korea, and surgery remains the only method of treatment that offers the potential for a cure. Purpose: The aims of this study are to examine the outcome of the patients with gastric adenocarcinoma who underwent curative resection and to identify the prognostic factors leading to improved survival rates in these patients.
Materials and Methods: The medical records of 278 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma, treated curatively at the Chosun University Hospital between January 1990 and December 1994, were reviewed retrospectively from January 2000 to March 2000. Follow-up was obtained for 250 patients(89.9%). The survival rates were calculated by the Kaplan-Meier method, and the significance of differences between patient factors(age and sex), tumor factors(location, size, gross type, tumor depth, lymph node metastasis, and stage) and treatment factors(operation method and reconstruction type) were evaluated statistically by the log-rank test.
Results: The overall five-year survival probability was 59.6%. There was no survival difference according to age and sex. The 5-year survival rates according to the tumor depth were 97.0% for Tl, 74.5% for T2, 39.6% for T3, and 23.1% for T4(p=0.0000); to the lymph node metastasis were 81,4% for N0, 51.9% for N1, and 21.2% for N2(p=0.0000); to the TNM stage were 96.7% for stage I a, 79.5% for stage I b, 68.8% for stage II, 52.9% for stage III a, 25.9% for stage III b, and 7.5% for stage IV(p=0.0000). Other statistically significant differences were shown in tumor location, size, gross type, operation method, and reconstruction type after subtotal gastrectomy.
Conclusion: The most definitive prognostic factors affecting the survival rate of gastric adenocarcinoma were tumor depth, lymph node metastasis, and tumor stage. The keys to successful outcome includes early diagnosis and curative resection with radical lymph node dissection at early stage as possible.
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KEYWORD
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Gastric adenocarcinoma, Curative surgery, Survival rate, Prognostic factors
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