Incidence of Gastric Cancer in Marrakech and Casablanca, Morocco

Table 2

Histopathologic information of gastric cancer patients in Marrakech in 2008–2012.

Variable	Number	%
Pathology ()
Biopsy	655	90
Resection	111	15
Histological type ()
Adenocarcinoma	602	83
Carcinoma	91	13
GIST	22	3
Not given	10	1
Differentiation ()
Well	39	5
Moderately	288	38
Poorly	281	39
Undifferentiated	17	2
Not specified	78	11

GIST: gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
The sum of percentages for differentiation does not total 100% because cases of GIST are not reported with level of differentiation.