An Investigation Into the Epidemiology on Wuwei Migrants and Sts Cases of Stomach Carcinoma From the Atrophic Gastritis

From the year 1976 to 1986, we made an investigation of 164 atrophic gastritis patients of Wuwei City and the incidence of The stomach carcinoma of Wuwei migrants in Qitai county, Xinjiang. We therefore come to the conclusion that the incidence of the stomach carcinoma from the atrophic gastritis is 9.15%. But the person-year incidence of the carcinoma is 1.09%. During the follow-up years, the death rate of Wuwei patients suffering from the stomach caRcilVoma is 40.91%. In 1982, the death rate of the stomach carcinoma cases in Wuwei is in the proportion of 1.96 to all The carcinomas. the standardized death rate of the first migrants is 34.09/100000 and that of their descendants is 33.13/100000. The death rate of the first migrants and their descendants is lower than that of the people in Wuwei, but higher than that of the people living in Qitai County.