The relationship between the pathology and prognosis of advanced gastric cancer

Objective To investigate the relationship between the pathology and prognosis of advanced gastric cancer.Methods An retrospective analysis was made on 296 patients with advanced gastric cancer, who were hospitalized and underwent operation between 1982 and 1992.Results Tumor histology relates to patients age and gender,as well as tumor size,gross type and depth of invasion.Within an individual layer of tumor invasion,there is not significant difference in lymph node metastasis among tumors with different histology nor in terms of five-year survival among patients with tumors of different histology.Conclusion For tumors with identical depth of invasion,irrespective of the pathological type,the postoperative survival is about the same.