Histopathology of Gastric Cancer in Kashmir – A Five Year Retrospective Analysis

ABSTRACT

Our study was a five year analysis of gastric cancers performed in the Department of Pathology, Government Medical College, Srinagar. This included an analysis of 152 cases of gastric cancers which accounted for 21.9% of gastrointestinal cancers. Pylorus was the commonest site involved, followed by the body and then cardia-fundus. Grossly the commonest type was an infiltrative lesion. Microscopically according to Lauren’s classification, intestinal type was the commonest (28%), followed by diffuse (27.3%) and mixed (8%). Chronic follicular gastritis, intestinal metaplasia and lymphoid hyperplasia were common findings in the intestinal type of adenocarcinoma.