Abstract
We have made a survey of the prognosis and the condition of rehabilitation of surgically operated stomach cancer patients, by sending questionnaires to our ex-patients, who were surgically operated upon at our hospital in the past 11 years and for whom death certificates were not issued from us. The number of survivors comprised 10.6% of all surgically operated cases of stomach cancer, and that of the cases who survived their operation by 5 years amounted to 13.9%. Percentages are somewhat low compard with other results so far reported. One third of the cases whose death was notified by the answer to such questionnaire had been able to resume their work for a while. As for the survivors, two thirds of them were actually working and one half of the survivors were leading a normal life. Of all the working cases, most of those who were feeling they were not up to such work but were obliged to strain themselves to it were found among farmers.
The number of patients who turn up for medical check-up after the operation decreases with the lapse of time, while the percentages of medically treated cases were about the same with those operated upon more than and those less than 5 years ago.
