Audit of advanced gastric cancer at Ibn Sina Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan

Abstract EN

Background : Worldwide, gastric cancer is the second most common cancer (second to lung cancer).

In Sudan incidence and prevalence are not clear because of absence of National Cancer Registry.

Purpose : To find out the frequency of the gastric mesenchymal tumours and whether gender and age influences the clinicopathological features of gastric cancer and to audit the outcome of management of advanced gastric cancer at Ibn Sina Hospital.

Methods : This is a retrospective study in 139 gastric cancer patients admitted from May 1997 through November 2004.

Demographic data and details of the clinical and endoscopic features of gastric cancer, as well as the operative details, and histopathology, the post-operative complication hospital mortality were analysed Available data on family history of cancer ; smoking and alcohol consumption was also collected.