Gastric Cancer Screening and Alarm Symptoms in Early Gastric Cancer

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01659632

Enrollment

1000

Registered

2012-08-08

Start date

2010-04-30

Completion date

2014-03-31

Last updated

2012-08-08

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Early Gastric Cancer

Brief summary

Most of the early gastric cancer are asymptomatic. Symptoms of advanced gastric cancer are weight loss, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, anorexia dysphagia, gastrointestinal bleeding. Gastric cancer found according to warning symptoms such as gastrointestinal bleeding, weight loss usually can not be cured. Therefore, early gastric cancer can not be detected and impossible to treatment if endoscopy is performed according to the warning signs. National gastric cancer screening is conducted in men and women of more than 40 years old. The purpose of screening for gastric cancer is discovering a case of possible cure, so increasing the survival rate. The purpose of this study is review of the feasibility of screening for gastric cancer.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

15 Years to 90 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* gastric cancer patients in St.mary's hospital

Exclusion criteria

* gastric lymphoma, gastric GIST patients in St.mary's hospital

Countries

South Korea

Contacts

Primary Contacteunyoung park, MD

peyoung97@hanmail.net

Outcome results