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Aim: Esophageal and gastric cancer are among the most commonly seen and fatal malignancies. In this study we aimed to evaluate the data of patients who were newly diagnosed with esophagus and gastric cancer. Material and Methods: 271 patients that were diagnosed with esophageal cancer and 352 patients that were diagnosed with gastric cancer and had undergone total/subtotal gastrectomy were investigated in this study. Results: The mean age was 63 ± 13.2 years for patients with esophageal cancer, and 64.6 ± 11.5 for patients with gastric cancer. The most common histopathological type in patients with esophageal cancer was squamous cell carcinoma (77.5%) and the most common histopathological type in patients with gastric cancer was adenocarcinoma (92.6%). The most common tumor location in patients with esophageal cancer was lower third of esophagus and the most common tumor location in patients with gastric cancer was corpus. 5.9% of patients with gastric cancer were accepted as early stage gastric cancer. There were no significant differences between the groups in terms of survival according to gender, tumor localization or histopathological types in patients with esophageal or gastric cancer. Conclusion: National screening programs may be considered for early diagnosis of esophageal and gastric cancers, which are common and have high mortality rates in Turkey

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