Survival of Patients with Early Gastric Cancer Operated on for Cure

Prognosis of early gastric cancer is far better than all other forms of gastric cancers with survival figures up to 90% at 5 years in Japan. Between 1982 and 1986, 31 cases of early gastric cancers were diagnosed at our institution and operated on for cure. Macro—scopically, 79% of lesions were ulcerating tumors, and 80% were located in the antrum with a maximal diameter of 2 cm in the majority of tumors. Histologically, 58% of cancers were of the intestinal type and 19 out of 31 had spread to the submucosa.