Caracterización de pacientes con cáncer gástrico en el Hospital Universitario San Rafael de Tunja, 2015 - 2020

Backup: Gastric cancer is a public health problem with great impact, which reached 1,090,000 cases and 769,000 deaths in 2020, worldwide; It is the third cause of death from cancer in the world. Objective: Determine the clinical, pathological and sociodemographic characteristics in patients with gastric cancer admitted at Hospital Universitario San Rafael de Tunja, between 2015 and 2020. Materials and methods: observational, descriptive cross-sectional study. From the records of the Hospital Universitario San Rafael de Tunja, there were reviewed medical records of 138 patients, admitted with a diagnosis of gastric carcinoma, in the period 2015 - 2020. Results: mean age 61.7 years, 63.4% men; 52.7% from rural areas; 25% with nutritional deficit due to body mass indexless than 18; 59.4% already had metastases, the most frequent to the Peritoneum, liver and lung; It was only possible to treated surgically in 25.5% of the cases; At the time of evaluation of the medical records, 43.5% of the patients had died. Conclusions: Environmental, cultural and socioeconomic conditions generate favorable scenarios for an increase in the incidence of adenocarcinoma-type gastric cancer, which leads to predicting a progressive increase in them. It is advisable to establish diagnostic and training protocols to enhance early diagnosis, which makes surgery a more effective curative option and improves the prognosis of patients. It would be advisable for a cancer observatory center to be structured at the regional level to carry out epidemiological surveillance and georeferencing of cases to improve monitoring and control conditions.   Keywords: Adenocarcinoma; Gastrectomy; Prevalence; Neoplasic metastasis

• Fecha de publicación: 2024
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/17185
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/salud_sociedad/article/view/17651; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/17185
• Palabra clave: Adenocarcinoma; Gastrectomía; Prevalencia; Metástasis neoplásica.; oncologia
• License: Derechos de autor 2024 Salud & Sociedad Uptc