[Carcinoma of the gastric stump]

The problems related to the postgastrectomy cancers occurrence are studied in the present work. A total of 65 subjects with postgastrectomy stump's cancer has been managed at Clinic of surgery in Hradec Králové starting from 1955 to 1984. An interval averaged as 26.4 years followed from the gastrectomy up to the cancer' occurrence in postgastrectomy stump. Such an interval was stated to be longer in gastrectomized younger patients. Postgastrectomies of II. type resulted in stomach stump's cancer most frequently. Authors preclude the postgastrectomy patients (II. type especially) are a group of cancer's risk in stomach stump, and are recommended to be covered with the out-patient care. The appropriate findings are compared to those of worldwide literary sources.