Gastric cancer clinical characteristics and their altered trends in South China: An epidemiological study with 2,800 cases spanning 26 years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gastric cancer (GC) is a serious threat to human health. The clinical GC characteristics in China may be impacted by changes in people's lifestyles and the promotion of early GC (EGC) screening. The present study aims to evaluate the recent trends of GC characteristics in South China and search for hazardous factors limiting the survival time of GC patients.

Methods

Data on GC patients that were hospitalized in the Department of Digestive Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, from 1994 to 2019 were collected and divided into two categories according to the time when the EGC screening began in China: the PRE group (previous 13 years, 1994-2006) and the PAS group (past 13 years, 2007-2019).

Results

We found that, although the 5-year s

SUBMITTER: Wei H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9942704 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature