Health-related quality of life after gastric cancer treatment in Brazil: Narrative review and reflections

Table 1 Estimated gastric cancer incidence (per 10⁵) each year for 2020-2022 period according to gender and geographic region[1]

	Geographic region					Brazil (all country)
	North	Northeast	Midwest	Southeast	South
Men	11.75	10.63	9.38	13.99	16.02	12.81
Women	6.03	7.03	6.71	7.30	9.15	7.34

Table 2 Anatomopathological, clinical, and treatment characteristics of the studied sample[3,4]

	n	%
Tumor stage1 (n = 102)
0	1	0.98
1	30	29.41
2	18	17.64
3	33	32.35
4	20	19.60
Lymph node stage1 (n = 103)
0	59	57.28
1	21	20.38
2	12	11.65
3	11	10.67
Tumor grade (n = 96)
I	10	10.40
II	42	43.80
III	4	45.80
Helicobacter pylori (n = 64)
Positive	26	40.60
Negative	38	59.40
Lauren histopathological type (n = 101)
Diffuse	33	32.70
Intestinal	62	61.40
Mixed	6	05.90
Smoking (n = 102)
Yes	56	54.90
No	46	45.10
Alcoholism (n = 102)
Yes	17	16.70
No	85	83.30
Gastrectomy performed (n = 104)
Proximal	2	01.90
Total	38	36.50
Partial	64	61.50
Neoadjuvant treatment
Yes	23	22.10
No	81	77.90
Adjuvant treatment
Yes	36	35.60
No	65	64.40

¹Pathologic stage groups (pTNM).

Table 3 Statistically significant scores of the 36-item short form health survey domains according to tumor site, adjuvant treatment, neoadjuvant treatment[3]

		Bodily pain		Physical functioning
		Score average	P value	Score average	P value
Tumor site	Cardia			83.6	0.042a
	Proximal			61.7
	Distal			70.6
Neoadjuvant treatment	Not treated	100	0.0071; 0.3632
	Treated	72
Adjuvant treatment	Not treated	77.1	0.1781; 0.0482
	Treated	81.4

^aP < 0.05.

¹Mann-Whitney test.

²Kruskal-Wallis test.

Table 4 Statistically significant scores of the functional assessment of cancer therapy-gastric domains according to tumor site, type of gastrectomy[3]

		PWB		GaCS		TOI		FACT-Ga total score
		Average score	P value	Average score	P value	Average score	P value	Average score	P value
Tumor site	Cardia			57.3	0.011	101.3	0.0201	144.4	0.0181
	Proximal			51		88.7		128.6
	Distal			60		103.4		144.9
Type of gastrectomy	Total	21	0.331	52.6	0.0061	91.8	0.0081	132	0.0111
	Partial	23.4		60.8		104.9		146.9

¹Kruskal-Wallis test.

FACT-Ga: Functional assessment of cancer therapy-gastric; GaCS: Gastric cancer subscale; PWB: Physical well-being; TOI: Trial outcome index.