The Department of Surgery in Chung Ang University Medical School had a survey clinical analysis of hundred and forty cases of resected stomach cancer patient through January 1980 to December 1984.
The survey was based on medical records. The main purpose of these clinical survey were focused on the various type of chemotherapy, follow-up rate and survival rate.
The results were showed in here.
1. ´In the sex distribution, men patients were 99 cases and women patients are 2.4:1. In age, the most peak age group of stomach cancer was sixth decades (fifty´s) and more than 90 percentage of stomach cancer were observed above than third decades age groups.
2. Based on the T.N.M. classification, there are 140 cases of resected stomach cancer were classified. In stage one, there are 27 cases (19.3%), in stage II(two), there are 29 cases(20.7%), In stag three, there are 84 cases (60%).
3. We performed two types of chemotherapy, the first one is MFC schedule and second is FAM schedule and the mean duration of chemotherapy were one and half year.
4. According to stomach T.N.M. stage, we had reanalysed the chemotherapy types. In stage one, no-chemotherapy group were 17 cases and ten cases were performed MFC schedule.
In stage two, there are 19 MFC cases, FAM was five cases and no-chemotherapy group were five cases.
In stage three, MFC group were 51 cases, FAM was 18 cases, and no-chemotherapy group were 15 cases. cases.
5. We observed the chemotherapy performance rate. In stage one: 33%, stage two: 83%, and stage three: 8517o, and total rate of chemotherapy performance rate was 74%.
6. In case of no-chemotherapy, we had analysing of the reason of no performed. In stage one, the main reason of no-performing were pathological status. In stage two and three, the economical status were main causes.
7. It is a kind of difficult for us to follow-up the patients, at the OPD.
It´s because that patients are frequently moving their home, poor interesting´ at patient´s health care, and depend on the herbs medicine. With that understanding, the follcw-up rate is not
satisfiable. Several cases were followed up after three years, but the number of `cases were so; small. Than we thought these statistic having no significance. These table showed follow-up rate of within 3 years. Until three years, there are six cases were followed in stage one (22%)´, 18 cases in stage II (62%) and stage three, there are 51 cases (60%).
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