[Clinico-roentgenological characteristics of stomach cancer in young and old patients].

Under study were 3877 case reports of gastric cancer patients of different age groups. It was noted that the duration of complaints in all age groups is nearly the same, but the diagnostic period in younger patients (18-35 years of age), as a rule, is considerably prolonged due to a supposed non-oncological lesion. Also, young patients show a larger area of invasion and earlier metastases.