[Diagnosis and therapy of stomach cancer]

In a random test of 95 patients with carcinoma of the stomach who were gastroscopised during 1974 to 1977 a sex distribution of 2:1 for men to women was found. The male patients had more frequently an adenocarcinoma, the female patients more frequently a solid carcinoma. The patients with carcinoma of the stomach had more frequently a chronic atrophic gastritis than a control group of patients with functional gastropathy. The precanceroses, such as the atypical intestinal metaplasia were found only among the carriers of carcinomas, but in no case in the control group. The curative operability was given in the antrum carcinomas in 72%, in the corpus carcinomas only in 30% of the cases. Despite a higher age average the operability of women was more favourable than that of men in a not different distribution of the carcinomas to corpus and antrum. The necessary early recognition of the carcinomas for the improvement of the results of therapy is emphasized.