A rising trend of gastric cardia cancer in Gansu Province of China
- Zhou, Yongning
- Zhang, Zhiyi
- Zhang, Zhenkun
- Wu, Jing
- Ren, Denxian
- Yan, Xiang
- Wang, Qing
- Wang, Yuling
- Wang, Huizheng
- Zhang, Jun
- Zhu, Xiaoling
- Yang, Yongchen
- Luo, Chong
- Guo, Xian
- Tang, Chengwei
- Qiao, Liang
DOIAbstract
We evaluated the incidence, age, gender, and anatomical distribution of gastric cancers in 65,284 cases of upper GI endoscopies. A total of 5253 gastric cancer cases were identified. Cancers of the cardia, fundus, body and antrum account for 33.6%, 2.7%, 23.6% and 34.0% of all cases, respectively. The mean age for gastric cancers was 56.9 +/- 10.2 years and 69.7% of the cancer cases were found in the 50-69 year age group. Subjects with cardia cancer were slightly older than subjects with non-cardia cancer. Over the 12-year period, the incidence of the gastric antrum cancer had significantly declined, whereas the incidence of the gastric cancer in the cardia and body had risen steadily. Thus, there was a rising trend of cardia cancers and a ...
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