en Surgery Surgery Original Article Original Article <p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color:#0000FF;"><strong><em>Background: </em></strong></span>The importance of gastric cancer, considering its progressive course and high mortality is one of the reasons we pay attention to patients&rsquo; survival and the significance of this study was to estimate survival and determine the effective factors on patients with gastric cancer.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color:#0000FF;"><strong><em>Methods:</em></strong> </span>In this cross-sectional study, all patients with gastric cancer who underwent surgery in Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Babol, northern Iran during 2006-2011 were enrolled. To get information, a checklist was prepared consisting gender, age, and other factors related to survival from the start of diagnosis to the end of study. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS Version 20, t-test, chi-square test and Cox regression and Kaplan-Meier.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color:#0000FF;"><strong><em>Results:</em></strong></span> One hundred seventy-five patients consisting 132(75.4%) males and 43(24.6%) females entered the study. Among the 146 patients who were followed up for 50 months, 25 (14.28%) cases survived and 121 (69.15%) cases died. Survival did not have a significant association with gender, age, family history, smoking, location and type of tumor, metastasis, involved lymph nodes and treatment. Tumor stage&nbsp;and type of surgery had a significant association with survival in Cox regression.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color:#0000FF;"><strong><em>Conclusion: </em></strong></span>Diagnosis of cancer at the early stage and type of surgery increased survival rate.</span></span></p> Gastric cancer, Survival, Tumor stage 190 195 http://caspjim.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-66-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Seyed-Reza Modarres 10031947532846009118 10031947532846009118 No Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran Abdolrahim Gholizadeh-Pasha 10031947532846009119 10031947532846009119 No Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran Soheil Khatibi 10031947532846009120 10031947532846009120 No Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran Sepideh Siadati pathbeheshtihospital@yahoo.com 10031947532846009121 10031947532846009121 Yes Babol University of Medical Sciences