Abstract:Abstract: Objective?To analyze the curative effect of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and traditional surgery on elderly patients with gastric cancer (GC) and influencing factors of prognosis based on SEER database.?Methods?865 elderly patients with primary GC at stage T1 who underwent ESD or traditional surgery were enrolled in SEER database during the period from January to December of 2014 were screened out. The curative effect of ESD and traditional surgery was analyzed. The influencing factors of prognosis were analyzed.?Results?The ratio of male to female in the 865 patients was 1.00?~?0.64. There were 29.02% and 49.02% of patients with malnutrition (poor) and chronic disease. There were 406 cases and 459 cases underwent ESD and traditional surgery, accounting for 46.94% and 53.06%, respectively. The 5-year overall survival rate was 66.36%. There was no significant difference in healing resection rate, complete resection rate or postoperative recurrence rate between patients underwent ESD and traditional surgery (P?>?0.05). However, compared traditional surgery, operation time and postoperative hospitalization time were shorter in patients underwent ESD, intraoperative blood loss was less, and intraoperative blood transfusion rate was lower (P?0.05). The incidence rates of postoperative hemorrhage, incision infection and lung infection, and incidence of total complications in patients underwent ESD were lower than those underwent traditional surgery (P?0.05). Univariate analysis showed that differences were not statistically significant in gender, age, smoking history, chronic diseases, primary lesion location, tumor size, pathological type and treatment method (P?>?0.05), while there differences were statistically significant in nutritional status, differentiation degree, lymph node metastasis, intraoperative blood transfusion and postoperative recurrence (P?0.05). The results of multivariate COX regression analysis showed that poor nutrition (RR?=?1.640, 95%CI: 1.207?~?2.235), moderate to low differentiation (RR?=?1.510, 95%CI: 1.113?~?2.049), lymph node metastasis (RR?=?1.412, 95%CI: 1.013?~?1.927), intraoperative blood transfusion (RR?=?1.394, 95%CI: 1.157?~?1.679) and postoperative recurrence (RR?=?3.529, 95%CI: 3.003?~?4.147) were all independent risk factors influencing prognosis of primary GC patients in stage T1 (P?0.05).?Conclusion?The clinical curative effect of ESD is similar to that of traditional surgery on elderly GC patients. However, operation time of the former is short, blood loss and complications are few, and postoperative recovery is quick. The influencing factors of prognosis include nutritional status, differentiation degree, lymph node metastasis, intraoperative blood transfusion and postoperative recurrence.