Study of Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Hospitalized Patients with Gastric Cancer: A Retrospective Study

Abstract

Gastric cancer remains as second most common malignancy-related mortality in the world. This study 
aimed at evaluate clinical and demographic characteristics of gastric cancer in specific sample of Emirati patients. 
Patients & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 176 patients between 2019 and 2024 with 
pathological documented gastric cancer were admitted in American Hospital Dubai in Dubai from 2019 to 2024 
(according to census of patients). Data about age, gender, gastric cancer family history, chief complaint, manifestations, 
anatomic stomach involvement, pathologic types, and stage of disease were obtained from medical files. Descriptive 
and analytical analysis was performed using SPSS v.16. 
Results: The mean age was 64.61 (SD=13.5), the ratio of male to female was 2.38:1. Most common anatomic 
involvement was antrum & pylorus (49.1%). prevalence of intestinal and diffuse adenocarcinoma was close, (23.9%) 
and (23.3%), respectively. Stage IV was most common stage (45.9%), and common manifestations composed of: 
gastric pain and weight loss,(54.5%), vomiting (42%),and anorexia (35.8%).Most common age group involved by 
diffuse adenocarcinoma was 40-54 age group (34.1-%), and there was statistically significant relationship between 
diffuse adenocarcinoma with (40-54)-year-old age group (p=0.046) and upper 69-year-old age group (p=0.03), in 
contrast , there wasn’t any significant statistic relationship between intestinal adenocarcinoma and separated anatomic 
stomach areas. 
Conclusion: There was similarity between the result of this study and some other comparable investigations, consisted 
of: distribution of gender, manifestations, most common stage, pathologic types, relationship of pathologic types with 
age groups, In spite of presence differences like: most common anatomic area involvement and lower mean age in 
comparison with developed countries