Gastric cancer at a university teaching hospital in northwestern Tanzania: A retrospective review of 232 cases

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mabula, Joseph B ^a   Mchembe, Mabula D ^b   Koy, Mheta ^a   Chalya, Phillipo L ^a   Massaga, Fabian ^c   Rambau, Peter F ^a   Masalu, Nestory ^a   Jaka, Hyasinta ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Clinicopathological pattern; Gastric cancer; Tanzania; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; DISTANT METASTASIS; DUODENUM DISEASE; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TANZANIA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869883449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-10-257     Document Type: Article

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