건강검진센터에서 발견된 위암의 임상적 특징

Abstract

Stomach cancer is the most common malignancy in Korea. Nowadays, the detection rate of early gastric cancer is increasing, whereas the mortality rate is decreasing. We conducted this study to evaluate whether there are any different characteristics in stoamch cancers diagnosed in Health Screening Center. We surveyed retrogradely 1,717 stomach cancer patients who were pathologically confirmed from Jan. 1997 to Aug. 2001. Sixty six patients were diagnosed in Health Screening Center, and the other 1,651 patients diagnosed at other clinical departments. In this study, several factors such as age, gender, histologic type, tumor size, stage and survival rate were evaluated to determine the characteristics. In analysis of these factors, no remarkable characteristic differences between the two groups was found.