TOTAL GASTRECTOMY FOR GASTRIC CANCER Five-Year Follow Up
UĞUR SUNGURTEKİN, AHMET ELDEM, ALİ MENTEŞ, MUSTAFA BAŞÖZ, TAYANÇ ÖNCEL, ORHAN ÖZBAL
Ege Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Genel Cerrahi Anabilim Dalı/İzmir
Abstract
A retrospective analysis of thirty two patients who had been subjected to total gastrectomy for gastric cancer between 1979-1989 is presented in this study. The purpose of surgical treatment was curative for 31% of patients, paliative for 69% of patients according to the histologic evaluation of surgical specimens. 54% of patients died following one year after surgery. Survival of the patients were 43% for 1 year, 33% for 2 years, 16% for 3 years and 3% for 5 years respectively. On the basis of these findings we believe that total gastrectomy shouldn't be performed as an alternative in gastric cancer except for a group of patients who have intestinal type lesion on biopsy specimen and who are at Stage I clinical condition.