Characteristics of young age gastric cancer patients
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 10:14
in Health & Medicine
Two percent to fifteen percent of patients with gastric cancer (GC) are younger than 45 years of age and there has been an increase in the relative proportion of young age GC compared with older age GC, especially in young females. The question of whether young age GC is different from that of older patients has been raised but remains unresolved.