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Pathology of Early Gastric Cancer

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Gastric cancer is one of the main causes of cancer death in the world, though its incidence rates vary greatly from country to country. Because Japan shows one of the highest rates of gastric cancer in the world [1, 2], and because the disease causes the highest mortality in Japan in both sexes, great efforts have been made to promote early diagnosis and treatment, especially mass screening by double contrast radiography.

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  1. Pathology Division, Tokyo Medical College Hospital, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160, Japan

    Teruyuki Hirota

  2. Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Temple University, 3400 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA

    Si-Chun Ming

  3. Clinical Pathology Division, Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital, 6528 Koibuchi, Tomobe-machi, Nishiibaraki-gun, Ibaraki, 309-17, Japan

    Masayuki Itabashi

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  1. Cancer Institute Hospital, 1-37-1 Kami-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 170, Japan

    Mitsumasa Nishi M.D.

  2. National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104, Japan

    Heizaburo Ichikawa M.D.

  3. Department of Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, 1-37-1 Kami-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 170, Japan

    Toshifusa Nakajima M.D.

  4. Gastric Surgery Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104, Japan

    Keiichi Maruyama M.D.

  5. Department of Pathology, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734, Japan

    Eiichi Tahara M.D.

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Hirota, T., Ming, SC., Itabashi, M. (1993). Pathology of Early Gastric Cancer. In: Nishi, M., Ichikawa, H., Nakajima, T., Maruyama, K., Tahara, E. (eds) Gastric Cancer. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68328-5_6

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