1. Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma – 2nd English Edition – Response assessment of chemotherapy and radiotherapy for gastric carcinoma: clinical criteria

   • Japanese Gastric Cancer Association

   Special article Pages: 1 - 8

2. The new Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma: Revised explanation of "Response assessment of chemotherapy and radiotherapy for gastric carcinoma"

   • Minoru Kurihara
   • Takashi Aiko
   • for the General Rules' Committee of the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association

   Special article Pages: 9 - 13

3. Induction by bombesin of peritoneal metastasis of gastric cancers induced by N-methyl-N′-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine in Wistar rats

   • Masaharu Tatsuta
   • Hiroyasu Iishi
   • Hitoshi Akedo

   Original article Pages: 14 - 19

4. Heterogeneity of p53 mutational status in the superficial spreading type of early gastric carcinoma

   • Hiroshi Iwamatsu
   • Ken Nishikura
   • Hitoshi Asakura

   Original article Pages: 20 - 26

5. A controlled clinical study of serosa-invasive gastric carcinoma patients who underwent surgery plus intraperitoneal hyperthermo-chemo-perfusion (IHCP)

   • Jin-Young Kim
   • Hoon-Sik Bae

   Original article Pages: 27 - 33

6. Lymph node metastasis and preoperative diagnosis of depth of invasion in early gastric cancer

   • Yasuyuki Seto
   • Shouji Shimoyama
   • Yoshitaka Yamamura

   Original article Pages: 34 - 38

7. Gastrectomy for a patient with early gastric cancer and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection

   • Kazuhiro Yasuda
   • Norio Shiraishi
   • Kenji Kashima

   Case report Pages: 39 - 42

8. Hepatoid adenocarcinoma of the stomach

   • Satoshi Inagawa
   • Jiro Shimazaki
   • Masayuki Itabashi

   Case report Pages: 43 - 52