[Gastric carcinoma. Therapy and prognosis. A report of a surgical series of 235 cases (author's transl)].

In a series of 235 gastric cancer cases, 222 of them justified in doing an operation and 155 an excision. The operation mortality rate fluctuated between 25 p. cent and 10 p. cent according to the type of treatment. For the whole group a five years actuarial survival was 13,3 p. cent; 22,5 p. cent in the case of excision with the aim of curing. A study of prognosis factors brings out the favourable role played by tumors of the ulcerated type, not reaching the serous wall, without lymph embole in the wall, and of course without metastases or extension at section cuts.