1. Evaluation of serum CEA and CA19-9 levels as prognostic factors in patients with gastric cancer

   • Mitsugu Kochi
   • Masashi Fujii
   • Motoo Yamagata

   Original article Pages: 177 - 186

2. Expression of transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) may contribute, in part, to the variations in histogenesis and the prevalence of peritoneal dissemination in human gastric carcinoma

   • Masami Niki
   • Masao Toyoda
   • Nobuhiko Tanigawa

   Original article Pages: 187 - 192

3. Clinical significance of disordered beta-catenin expression pattern in human gastric cancers

   • Takehiro Utsunomiya
   • Yuichiro Doki
   • Morito Monden

   Original article Pages: 193 - 201

4. Prognostic factors in patients with advanced gastric cancer with macroscopic invasion to adjacent organs treated with radical surgery

   • Hiroshi Isozaki
   • Noriaki Tanaka
   • Kunio Okajima

   Original article Pages: 202 - 210

5. Gastric cancer with extragastric lymph node metastasis: multivariate prognostic study

   • Norio Shiraishi
   • Yosuke Adachi
   • Naoko Kinukawa

   Original article Pages: 211 - 218

6. Incidence of lymph node metastasis from early gastric cancer: estimation with a large number of cases at two large centers

   • Takuji Gotoda
   • Akio Yanagisawa
   • Yo Kato

   Original article Pages: 219 - 225

7. Advanced gastric glandular-endocrine cell carcinoma with 1-year survival after gastrectomy

   • Hiroyuki Matsubayashi
   • Shinichi Takagaki
   • Mitsuya Iwafuchi

   Case report Pages: 226 - 233