Clinical profile of gastric cancer in Khuzestan, southwest of Iran

Table 1 Age distribution in patient groups

Age (yr) group	Male patients		Female patients
	(n)	%	(n)	%
1-10	0	0	0	0
10-19	0	0	0	0
20-29	4	2.15	7	3.76
30-39	15	8	7	3.76
40-49	11	6	6	3.2
50-59	20	11	10	5.4
60-69	50	27	24	12.9
70-79	19	10	6	3.2
≥ 80	7	3.7	0	0
Total	126	67.9	60	32

Table 2 Features of the studied patients

Signs and symptoms	Patients (n)	%
Abdominal pain	93	50
Weight loss	23	12
Dyspepsia	91	48.8
Nausea, vomiting	74	40
Abdominal mass	4	2
Anorexia	182	97.7
Dysphagia	30	16
Gastrointestinal bleeding	26	14
Ascites	28	15
Constipation	5	2.5

Table 3 Distribution of gastric adenocarcinomas according to their site n (%)

Histopathological type	GEJ and gastric cardia	Gastric corpus and antrum	Total
Intestinal type adenocarcinoma	24 (12.9)	80 (43.1)	104
Diffuse type adenocarcinoma	14 (7.5)	60 (32.3)	74
Gastric lymphoma and metastasis	0 (0)	8 (4.3)	8
Total	38 (16.7)	148 (79.9)	186

Table 4 TNM stage and methods of operation in patient groups

Stage (TNM) and methods of operation Patients	Patients (n)	%
I	0	10
II	20	10.8
III	33	17.5
IV	133	71
Curability
Curative resection	15	8
Palliative resection	95	51
No resection	76	41
Type of resection
Total and subtotal gastrectomy	70	37.6
Distal gastrectomy	14	7.5
Other resections and palliative operation	26	14