[Prognostic factors of the gastric cancer patients without distant metastasis]

From 1946 to 1990, 10,485 patients with gastric cancer were been surgically treated in the Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo. Retrospectively, we analyzed prognostic factors, especially in those without distant metastasis. Prognosis of the patients with tumors which invaded the proper muscle layer improved dramatically (from 70% to 90%). However, patients who had advanced tumors with serosal invasion did not show good survived (from 20% to 40%). To improve the prognosis of patients with serosal positive gastric cancer, a new and effective prophylactic therapy for peritoneal recurrence is needed.