Abstract
The prognosis of the gastric cancer is affected by its serosal invasion, metastasis to lymph nodes, metastasis to distant organs and many other factors. The prognosis is de-termined by a single factor in rare case but some factors in many cases.
We experienced 272 cases of absolute curative operation among 423 cases of the opera-tive gastric cancer between 1968 and 1973. Among these 272 cases, 128 cases of advanced cancer were studied about the prognostic factors, except 119 early cases and 25 death cases by the other diseases.
In our results, the factors which aggravate the prognosis are 1) macroscopical invasive type of cancer, 2) wider exposure of macroscopical serosal invasion (especially 4.0 cm over exposed diameter), 3) deeper invasion of the gastric wall, 4) comparing with lymph nodes metastasis, such cases as no, ssγ over, n1 (+), ssβ over and n2(+) pm over, 5) some metastases in 2nd group of lymph nodes without another factors.
