Quality of Life in Vietnamese Gastric Cancer Patients

Table 2

Disease characteristics of participants according to genders.

	Male		Female		Total		P
	n	%	n	%	n	%
History of Gastric diseases	68	54.8	33	56.9	101	55.5	0.80
Diagnosing gastric diseases
Gastritis	44	67.7	21	63.6	65	66.3	0.67
Others	21	32.3	12	36.4	33	33.7
Time to diagnosis
> 5 years	28	41.2	10	31.3	38	38.0	0.30
1-5 years	23	33.8	16	50.0	39	39.0
< 1 year	17	25.0	6	18.8	23	23.0
Family history with gastric cancer	15	12.1	11	19.0	26	14.3	0.22
Characteristics of Gastric cancer Lesion size
<= 3 cm	19	16.4	14	25.0	33	19.2	0.18
> 3 cm	97	83.6	42	75.0	139	80.8
Lauren Classification
Intestinal type	95	77.9	40	70.2	135	75.4	0.27
Diffuse type	27	22.1	17	29.8	44	24.6
Tumor Size
T1 and T2	9	10.3	6	17.7	15	12.4	0.10
T3	40	46.0	20	58.8	60	49.6
T4	38	43.7	8	23.5	46	38.0
Node
N0	16	19.1	4	11.4	20	16.8	0.70
N1	39	46.4	16	45.7	55	46.2
N2	20	23.8	11	31.4	31	26.1
N3	9	10.7	4	11.4	13	10.9
Stage
I and II	29	32.6	11	32.4	40	32.5	0.05
III	33	37.1	5	14.7	38	30.9
IV	3	3.4	3	8.8	6	4.9
Not defined	24	27.0	15	44.1	39	31.7
Treatment
Surgery	28	22.6	12	20.7	40	22.0	0.96
Chemotherapy + surgery	77	62.1	37	63.8	114	62.6
Others	19	15.3	9	15.5	28	15.4
Time from diagnosis	14.2	6.8	16.3	11.1	14.8	8.4	0.30