Stomach cancer is not only the disease of older people, or patients with chronic digestive symptoms.
In a study in Mexico showed that 1 in 7 of 2000 patients diagnosed with gastric cancer between 2004 to 2016 were under 40. These findings were reported in ESMO World Congress 2019.
US National Cancer Institute data support this and showing that gastric cancer affecting more young hispanic people with bad outcomes than older patients.
Dr German Calderillo-Ruiz, from the National Cancer Institute, Tlalpan, Mexico says, “At our centre, we have seen a 120% increase in gastric cancer in younger patients in the last 12 years and this increase has been mainly in female patients who typically present with more advanced disease and worse prognostic indicators than men, with an adverse impact on survival.”
In this study found that more than half of patients with gastric cancer under 40 were women. In contrast to previous study has shown that gastric cancer is more common in men.
In mexico female patients were more likely to poor differentiated tumors and diagnosed at a later stage than men decrease the survival rate.
In maxican study data collected of 2022 patients who are diagnosed between 2004-2016 from whom 14% were under 40. Of these 46% men and rest of the women.
Women have a higher level of poor prognosis than men.
References
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/esfm-gan070119.php