@Article{info:doi/10.2196/14359,
author="Aqel, Ashraf
and Khader, Yousef
and Arqoub, Kamal
and Nimri, Omar",
title="Survival Rate of Gastric Cancer Patients in Jordan: Secondary Data Analysis",
journal="JMIR Public Health Surveill",
year="2020",
month="May",
day="4",
volume="6",
number="2",
pages="e14359",
keywords="gastric cancer; survival rate; Jordanian cancer cases",
abstract="Background: Gastric cancer accounts for 2.7{\%} of all newly diagnosed cancer cases in Jordan. Objective: The aim of this study was to calculate the survival rate and its determinants among Jordanian patients who were diagnosed with gastric cancer between 2010 and 2014. Methods: A descriptive study was conducted based on secondary analysis of data from the Jordan Cancer Registry during the period of 2010-2014. Only cancer-related deaths were recorded as ``death'' in the survival analysis. Results: A total of 1388 new cases of gastric cancer were recorded between 2010 and 2014. Of these, 872 (62.8{\%}) were Jordanians and 60.5{\%} were males. The mean age at diagnosis was 58.9 years and the median follow-up time was 1.6 years. The 5-year survival rate decreased significantly from 89{\%} in patients with well-differentiated cancer to 32{\%} in patients with poorly differentiated cancer (P=.005). The overall 5-year survival rate was 37.7{\%} and the median survival was 1.48 years (95{\%} CI 1.179-1.783). The 5-year survival rate decreased significantly with increasing age and with advanced stage of the disease: the 5-year survival rate was 75{\%} for localized-stage, 48{\%} for regional-stage, and 22.7{\%} for distant-metastasis disease (P=.005). Conclusions: This study showed that the overall 5-year survival rate among patients with gastric cancer in Jordan between 2010 and 2014 was 37.7{\%}, which is higher than the reported rates from different countries in the Eastern Mediterranean region such as Egypt. ",
issn="2369-2960",
doi="10.2196/14359",
url="https://publichealth.jmir.org/2020/2/e14359",
url="https://doi.org/10.2196/14359",
url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32364509"
}