Risk factors for gastric cancer: Gastric Adeno carcinoma

This work is based on a retrospective epidemiological study of the gastric adenocarcinomas which was carried out in a cancer treatment Centre in Morocco. The study was based on a total of 240 cases of gastric adenocarcinomas taken from the Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology at the University Hospital Center in Rabat, Morocco from 2000 and 2004. Among patients with gastric adenocarcinomas, 60% were males and 40% were females. There were 99 deaths among which 68% were men and 32% were women. The highest frequency of adenocarcinoma patients was observed in the age group [60-70 years old, at 26.7%.The average age of death was 43.67 +/- 8.67 years. Furthermore, the average length of survival after starting the treatment was 1.44 +/- 1.89 years. The study also, showed that the evolution of patients to death depends on the age.