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  • Title: Results of an aggressive surgical approach to gastric carcinoma during a twenty-three-year period.
    Author: Scott HW, Adkins RB, Sawyers JL.
    Journal: Surgery; 1985 Jan; 97(1):55-9. PubMed ID: 2578230.
    Abstract:
    The early work of Dr. William Longmire with total gastrectomy for gastric carcinoma prompted us to initiate an aggressive surgical approach to gastric carcinoma in 1960: in curative resections radical total gastrectomy with hepaticoceliac-left gastric arterial node dissection was to be performed for tumors involving the entire stomach or upper two thirds and radical 80% to 90% subtotal gastrectomy with similar node dissection for tumors located in the antrum. During a 23-year period 213 patients with confirmed gastric carcinoma were studied. Celiotomy was performed in 192: advanced gastric cancer was found in 185 and seven had early gastric cancer. In only 80 patients could resections for "cure" be done. In 31 patients who underwent total or extended total gastrectomy the operative mortality rate was 9.6%, and life table survival curves show a better survival rate than in 49 patients treated by subtotal gastrectomy, with an operative mortality rate of 16.3%. The study shows the urgent need for diagnosis of early gastric cancer by gastroscopic screening of adults at risk and the meager salvage by radical resection in advanced disease.
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