Abstract
Since Sept. 1966-Nov. 1973, 25 cases of juvenile gastric cancer were found in The Cancer Center of Shikoku-Matsuyama National Hospital. The ratio of male to female was 1: 0.9 in youth, and 1: 0.5 in the total cases of gastric cancer in the same period.
2 cases in 12 female juvenile gastric cancer were found in the pregnancy, more advanced cases were found in the period of 1-12 months after delivery.
The ratio of curative to non-curative resection was higher than those which have been reported.
The stage as advancement of gastric cancer was compared in two periods and in the second period (1970-1973) much more cases in early stage were found than in the first period (1966-1970).
4 cases of juvenile EARLY CANCER were observed.
Our date shows that, recently, more cases of juvenile gastric cancer in early stage are observed, and the possibility of curative resection are better than former years
