[Clinicopathological evaluation of patients surviving stomach cancer for 10 years following gastrectomy].

The clinicopathological findings on 232 patients with advanced gastric cancer who survived longer than 10 years after curative surgery were reviews and compared with those on 287 patients who died within 5 years of their operation. There were significantly more 10-year survivors in the group whose tumor size was less than 5 cm, where the center was not located in the cardia, in patients without lymph node involvement, less vessel invasion and higher lymphocyte infiltration around the stroma of the cancerous nests. No statistical differences were observed with regard to patient age, sex, Borrmann classification, histological types and invasive patterns between 10-year survivors and patients who died less than 50 years postoperatively.