Supervivencia y complicaciones postgastrectomía en pacientes con adenocarcinoma gástrico atendidos durante el período del 2015 al 2020 en el Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Guayaquil-Ecuador.

Abstract

Background: Gastric adenocarcinoma is a neoplasm that ranks second as cancer-related death worldwide with survival rates around 30% in developed countries, in Ecuador the latest statistics are from 2015, with the incidence of digestive cancer in the The male population ranks 1st with 24.2%, while the female population ranks 4th with 14.97%. Without population distribution by provinces.Objective: To determine the survival and postgastrectomy complications in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma treated during the period from 2015 to 2020 at the Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Guayaquil-Ecuador. Materials and methods: A retrospective, cross-sectional cohort study was carried out by consulting clinical records in the AS400 and of an observational type at the Hospital de Especialidades Teodoro Maldonado Carbo with a universe of 1049 patients who met criteria and from which a significant random sample of 282 patients. Results: To represent the total survival of the patients, the Kaplan-Meier index was used, which showed that mortality is high in the first months of treatment, thus obtaining an average of 27 months of overall survival and survival in 23% of the population. Conclusion: Stomach cancer in our country has a high mortality rate of 76% after diagnosis, even much more serious than those published by the WHO and ASCO.