[Results and perspectives of the treatment of diffuse gastric cancer]

The results of surgical treatment of 870 patients with extended gastric cancer, to whom gastrectomy was done, were summarized. Five-year survival index had constituted 35.6%, ten-year--12.9%. Within 5 years after conventional gastrectomy conduction 43.7% of patients were alive, after combined procedure--27.3%, palliative operation--16.1%.