Comparison of survival between diffuse type and intestinal type early-onset gastric cancer patients: A large population-based study

Currently, little knowledge about the survival of early-onset gastric cancer and little evidence about the difference of survival based on Lauren type has been reported. In order to investigate the difference, we conducted a retrospective study using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database and compared it comprehensively. SEER database was used to extracted patients and multiple imputation was utilized to fill blank data. Multivariate cox regression analysis and competing risk model were used to identify the risk factors of survival. K-M survival curve and propensity score matching (PSM) was applied to compare the difference of survival of patients based on Lauren type. Totally, we extracted 3932 EOGC patients including 2086 diffused type and 1846 intestinal type. K-M survival curve showed patients aged 20 to 29 had worse survival compared to patients aged at 30 to 45 years. The survival of EOGC patients would be greatly improved after surgery. Multivariate cox regression analysis revealed diffused type was an independent risk factor, as well as T stage, lymph node metastasis, tumor size (>5 cm) and metastasis, while surgery treatment and examined lymph nodes were protective factors. Multivariate competing risk regression model also showed diffused type was risk factor. We performed PSM by matching 1433 diffused EOGC with 1433 intestinal EOGC patients, finding patients with diffused type had a poorer survival. our results revealed that compared to diffused type EOGC, intestinal type was characterized by a better survival. EOGC should be attached more attention by clinicians.