1. Clinicopathological Features of Upper Third Gastric Cancer during a 21-Year Period (Single Center Analysis)
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Je Ho Jang, Kuhn Uk Lee, Han-Kwang Yang, Hyuk Joon Lee, Woo Ho Kim, Seong Ho Kong, Hye Seong Ahn, and Reinaldo Isaacs Beron
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Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Incidence ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Stomach neoplasms ,Gastric cardia ,Gastric fundus ,Gastroenterology ,Cancer ,University hospital ,Single Center ,medicine.disease ,Rate of increase ,Surgery ,Oncology ,Internal medicine ,Prognoisis ,medicine ,Clinicopathological features ,Original Article ,Upper third ,business ,Survival rate - Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine proportions of upper third gastric cancer (UTG) among all gastric cancers and analyze clinicopathological features of the disease. Materials and Methods: The medical records of 12,300 patients who underwent gastric surgery between 1986 and 2006 at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) were retrospectively reviewed. Clinicopathological features of 1,260 patients with UTG and 9,929 patients with middle or lower third gastric cancer (MLG) were compared, and annual proportions of UTG were evaluated. Results: The proportion of patients with UTG rapidly increased from 2.6% in 1986 to 12.5% in 1992. However, linear regression analysis showed that the rate of increase was reduced (0.21%/year) after 1992 (12.5% to 14.2% from 1992 to 2006). Compared with the MLG group, the UTG group had a lower proportion of (22.3% vs. 39.7%, P
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- 2010
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