The goal of this study is to create a registry of patients with gastrointestinal malignancies. This registry will provide important information about the types of gastrointestinal cancers seen at the institution, their presentation, and course of disease. We plan to review, analyze pathological features, clinical features, and other parameters of digestive diseases as related to types of treatment, patterns of care, time to progression, and survival at NYPH-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

This research is being done because by analyzing the subgroups of our patient population and the tumor specific treatments of cancers of the gastrointestinal tract, we will be better able to understand the impact of different treatments on recurrence and survival and develop a foundation for future clinical trials.