Gastric cancer in an urban hospital: a 25-year review

Fifty-seven cases of gastric carcinoma seen at Hubbard Hospital of Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, between 1956 and 1980 are reviewed. There has been no change in the survival rates in this group from the results for patients treated for gastric carcinoma over the last 25 years. The overall five-year survival rate remains 5 percent.