[Vocational rehabilitation of patients after radical surgery for stomach cancer].

The authors analyse the dynamics of the working capacity of 146 patients with stomach carcinoma according to the type of operative treatment and the character of the work. The results of vocational rehabilitation were best after Billroth I subtotal resection; by the end of a 5-year follow-up period 81.8 +/- 8.2% of the patient who had survived worked (after Billroth II resection 57.8 +/- 7.4%, p < 0.05). After gastrectomy patients resumed work at more later periods. Lethality among parsons who resumed work was independent of the type of operation and was not higher than that among patients who did not work (8.2 +/- 2.3% and 62.6 +/- 2.5%, respectively; p < 0.001). Individuals of intellectual vocations returned earlier to their work after treatment (76.5 +/- 5.9% resumed work in the first 2 years, as compared to 42.1 +/- 5.1% of persons engaged in physical work; p < 0.001). The main tendency was to change to easier conditions of work, with the exception of highly qualified and highly specialized profession. Most of the patients (99 +/- 0.7%) resumed work in the first 4 years after the end of treatment.