Delay in diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer: From the beginning of symptoms to surgery - An Iranian study

Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 77-81

  Hosseini, Seyed Nejat ^b   Mousavinasab, Seyed Nouraddin ^a   Moghimi, Mohammad Hossein ^b   Fallah, Ramazan ^a  

^a ZANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ZANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Gastric cancer; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; RURAL AREA; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGEON;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOREXIA; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RURAL POPULATION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VOMITING;

EID: 43549113842     PISSN: 13004948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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