ABSTRACT
Objective To compare and analysis clinicopathological characteristics,and to investigate progno-sis factors of gastric cancer in young patients.Methods Clinicopathological data of 103 gastric cancer in young patients (YGC,18-44 years) who underwent surgery,endoscopic and pathology diagnosis in the affiliated Jincheng Coal General Hospital of Shanxi Medical University from January 2010 to December 2014 were analyzed retrospective-ly.A total of 315 gastric cancer in older patients ( OGC,≥60 years) during the same period patients were selected and compared to the young gastric cancer patients.Results The male to female ratios was 1 1.5 and the percentage of female patients was predominant in the 103 YGC patients,and there was statistically significant different (χ2 =32.03,P<0.01).The first clinical symptoms were upper abdominal pain and hemorrhagic anemia in most of the YGC group.Gastric antruma was most common in the occurrence site of the tumor of the YGC group.The incidence of the BorrmannⅢtype andⅣtype in YGC patients was statistically higher than that of the OGC group.With regard to his-tological type,the most frequency type in the YGC group was diffuse adenocarcinoma (83%),which was statistically significant different.As compared with the OGC patients,poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma and ring cell carcinoma were predominant pathological type in YGC (χ2 =41.51,P<0.01).Nothing can be compared with T3 stage and T4 stage of the depth of invasion,and clinical stage wereⅢstage andⅣstage in most of the YGC group (χ2 =48.78, P<0.01).Patients with a family history of cancer in YGC were higher than OGC,which was statistically different (χ2 =17.39,P<0.05).There were no statistical significant difference in tumor size,Hp infection rate,level of albu-min,level of serum CEA,vascular cancer embolus and incisal edge between the two groups.On univariate and multiva-riate analysis showed that the depth of invasion,degree of differentiation,lymph node metastasis,clinical stage and sur-gical methods were the independent risk factors associated with the prognosis of YGC.Conclusion The YGC patients are usually female,obviously hereditary tendency,and tumor most locate at gastric antruma.The first clinical symptoms are lacking in specific,but upper abdominal pain and hemorrhagic anemia in most of the YGC patients.Ⅲstage andⅣstage was most common of clinical stage.The YGC patients are usually poorly differentiation,highly ma-lignant,early metastasis and poorer prognosis.