the results of treatment of gastric cancer in the provincial hospital in zielona gra introduction gastric cancer is the third leading cause of death from cancer worldwide in both sexes following lung and breast cancer the incidence of gastric cancer in poland is approximately 5 in men and approximately 25 in women among the complete incidence of cancers deaths from gastric cancer in men in poland in 2009 amounted to 66 while in women46 the highest mortality rate in men is observed in the lubuskie podkarpackie slaskie and opolskie provinces european average 5year survival in the eurocare4 study is 245aim the aim of this paper was to assess the treatment of gastric cancer in the department of general and oncological surgery of the provincial hospital in zielona gramaterials and methods the retrospective analysis of 109 patients with gastric cancer operated in the years 20032007 was performed the analysis included patients scheduled for admission with the histopathological confirmation of adenocarcinoma prepared to and subjected to laparotomy the postoperative intrahospital deaths were estimated up to 30 days after surgery the analysis of the survival rates was performed up to 1 6 12 36 and 60 months since lapatoromy all the continuous variables with the standard distribution were expressed as the mean standard deviation while the total survival rates were assessed by means of the kaplanmeier methodresults 55 patients 505 underwent the radical surgical procedure intended to cure them the remaining 54 patients 495 could not be qualified for the radical surgical procedures in 35 cases 32 underwent laparotomy with biopsy in 19 cases 17 palliative surgery intestinal bypass gastrostomy palliative resection out of 55 patients underwent the radical surgical procedure 9 patients died after the procedure 164 the survival rates calculated for all the patients revealed that 211 patients survived 5 years after the surgeryconclusions almost a half of the patients 495 who were admitted for treatment had an advanced stage of the disease that could not be qualified for the radical surgical procedures the distant results of surgical treatment are nonsatisfactory due to the fact that the disease was so advanced 5yearlong survival rates 211 in our data are higher that the ones listed in the eurocare4 test for poland 144 but lower than the european average 245