Features of Recurrent Cases with Early Gastric Cancer

Koji Sekikawa, Atsuo Tsuchiya, Fumiaki Watanabe, Yoichi Kikuchi, Yoshimasa Ishii, Yoshiro Ando, Tsuneyuki Yoshida, Rikiya Abe

Department of Surgery, II, Fukushima Medical College

Though the prognosis for patients with gastric cancer has been remarkably improved, there are still recurrence of early gastric cancer. In this study, we determined the clinicopathological features, nuclear DNA content and the location of CEA in tissue of recurrent cases with early gastric cancer. The records of l27 Japanese with early gastric cancer, who had been surgically treated in our department, were studied. The 10 year survival rates for the patients with mucosal (m) cancer and submucosal (sm) cancer was 100%, 92.8%, respectively. There were 2 cases of recurrece out of the 127 patients (1.6%). One recurrence was in a 71 year-old woman who died 5 years and 5 months after her curative operation. The other was in a 73 year-old man who died one year after his curative operation. Vessel invasion seemed to be one of the largest factors which affect the recurrence of the early gastric cancer.

Key words
early gastric cancer, nuclear DNA contents of gastric cancer, recurrence of early gastric cancer

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Koji Sekikawa Department of Surgery II, Fukushima Medical College
1 Hikariga-oka, Fukushima, 960-12 JAPAN

Accepted
July 10, 1990

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