| Clinicopathologic characteristics of gastric cancer diagnosed at health screening |
|
Hyun Jeong Lee, Jun Mo Chung, Eun Hee Seo, Seong Woo Jeon |
|
성균관 의과대학교 삼성서울병원 심혈관센터 순환기내과 |
| 건강검진을 통해 진단된 위암의 임상양상 |
|
이현정, 정준모, 서은희, 전성우 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Abstract |
|
Background/Aims: Stomach cancer is the most common malignancy and one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in Korea. The early diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer are very important because the prognosis of early gastric cancer is excellent. Gastric screening may provide an opportunity to detect asymptomatic early gastric cancer. We analyzed the characteristics of gastric cancer diagnosed with a health screening test to evaluate the usefulness of a screening program for gastric cancer.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the clinicopathological characteristics of 111 gastric cancer patients diagnosed using gastric endoscopy as a gastric screening test at the Health Promotion Center of Kyungpook National University Hospital from July 1997 through December 2005.
Results: The incidence of gastric cancer was 0.38% and the mean patient age was 58.5 years old. The proportion of early gastric cancer was 73% of all gastric cancer. In 55 cases, constituting 49.6% of all gastric cancer and 68% of early gastric cancer, the lesions were confined to the mucosa. The most common macroscopic types were type IIc in early gastric cancer and Borrmann type 3 in advanced gastric cancer. There were significant positive correlations between lymph node metastasis and both the depth of tumor invasion and size of the lesion. The 5-year survival rates are 82.7% in total gastric cancer and 97.2% in early gastric cancer.
Conclusions: Gastric cancer detected during health screening has a favorable prognosis because gastric cancer confined to the mucosa predominates and early gastric cancer detected at screening has a lower incidence of metastasis to regional lymph nodes. (Korean J Med 75:665-672, 2008) |
| Key Words:
Mass screening; Stomach neoplasms |
|
PDF Links
Full text via DOI
Download Citation
