New criteria of prognosis are established on the basis of study of 265 surgically removed stomach carcinomas. The factors of an unfavourable prognosis are as follows: young age, dysproteinemia, low blood coagulability, high leucocytosis and reaction of erythrocyte sedimentation, endocrine diseases, eosinophilic infiltration of stroma with high content of collagen type V and fibronectin, high expression of pepsinogen C, gastrin and carcino-embryonic antigen in the tumour parenchyma.
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