Epidemiological, clinical, endoscopic and histological characterization of gastric cancer

Authors

  • Ignacio Morales Martínez Hospital Asistencial “Celestino Hernández Robau”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Mario Orlando Hernández Cubas Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Alexis Rodríguez Pena
  • Manuel Lara Martín Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Rodolfo Valdés Landaburo Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Juan Mario Reyes Vera Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Keywords:

stomach neoplasms/epidemiology

Abstract

Gastric cancer is a health problem worldwide. In order to characterize the disease, a descriptive prospective study was conducted at the Arnaldo Milian Castro and the Celestino Hernández Robau University Hospitals during 2009. It measured socio-demographic, clinical, endoscopic and histological variables. The most common risk factors in patients with gastric cancer were the male sex (64.3%), an age between 51 and 60 years (35.7%), insufficient consumption of fruits and vegetables (81.0%), blood group A (45.2%) and chronic gastritis (26.2%). The main symptom was epigastric pain (64.3%) and the predominant signs were hematemesis and melena, both in 16.7% of cases. The main endoscopic findings were the ulcerated type of gastric cancer and a location at the level of the body (56.1% and 29.3% respectively). The diffuse-type adenocarcinoma was the predominant histologic type (56.4%), and the early diagnosis of gastric cancer is the key to a successful  treatment.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Ignacio Morales Martínez, Hospital Asistencial “Celestino Hernández Robau”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Gastroenterología. Profesor Instructor de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Mario Orlando Hernández Cubas, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Gastroenterología. Profesor Instructor de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Alexis Rodríguez Pena

Especialista de I Grado en Medicina General Integral. Máster en Salud Pública. Profesor Asistente de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Manuel Lara Martín, Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Gastroenterología. Máster en Enfermedades Infecciosas. Profesor Asistente de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Rodolfo Valdés Landaburo, Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I y II Grado en Gastroenterología. Máster en Atención Integral al Niño. Profesor Auxiliar de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Juan Mario Reyes Vera, Hospital Pediátrico “José Luis Miranda”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Gastroenterología. Máster en Atención Integral al Niño. Profesor Auxiliar de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Downloads

How to Cite

1.
Morales Martínez I, Hernández Cubas MO, Rodríguez Pena A, Lara Martín M, Valdés Landaburo R, Reyes Vera JM. Epidemiological, clinical, endoscopic and histological characterization of gastric cancer. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2012 Jan. 5 [cited 2025 Jul. 2];6(1):3-9. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/665

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2012): January-March. Special Issue on Surgery

Section

Original Articles

License

Authors who have publications with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors will retain their copyright and assign to the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to a Creative Commons License / Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and first publication in this journal are indicated.
  2. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., depositing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a monographic volume) as long as the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
  3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their web page) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work. (See The effect of open access).