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🌱 來自: gastric cancer

overview of gastric cancer

• 5th most common CA in world, 3rd leading cause of CA death: Geographic variation, high incidence East Asia, South/Central America, Eastern Europe (CA Cancer J Clin 2018;68:394)
• United States: ∼26,560 new cases for 2021, median age 68 y, 2x ↑ incidence in men, ↑ all groups except non-Hispanic whites (SEER*Explorer); ↑ early-onset gastric CA (Surgery 2019;166:547)
• Western countries: ↓ Intestinal-type distal stomach, ↑ diffuse-type proximal stomach