Latin American young patients with gastric adenocarcinoma: worst prognosis and outcomes.
J Gastrointest Oncol
; 14(5): 2018-2027, 2023 Oct 31.
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ABSTRACT
Background:
Incidence of young patients (aged 40 years or younger) diagnosed with gastric carcinoma has increased worldwide. Young GC diagnosis, have clinicopathological features that differ from elderly, and is correlated with bad prognosis factors. The purpose of this work is to describe the prevalence, clinic-pathological features, and prognosis of overall survival (OS) of young Latin-American patients with GC.Methods:
Retrospective, observational study. Included patients treated at the National Cancer Institute [2004-2020]. Statisticalanalysis:
χ2 and t-test, Kaplan-Meier, Log-Rank and Cox-Regression. Statistical significance differences were assessed when P was bilaterally <0.05.Results:
A total of 2,543 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Young-patients were predominantly female (54%), with diffuse-type adenocarcinoma (68%), signet-ring-cell (72%), poor-differentiation (90%), and metastatic (79%). In OS analysis, patients with metastatic disease, showed differences regarding age, young patients reported a median-OS of 8 versus 13 months for elderly patients (P=0.001). Among young patients, differences were also observed regarding gender, young-female patients had a median-OS of 5 versus 11 months for young-man (P=0.001).Conclusions:
This is one of the pioneer studies correlating age with gender and the prognostic features of bad prognosis in Latin-American population. Besides, supports the idea that a global effort is required to improve awareness, prevention, and early diagnosis of GC.
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