1. Challenge and opportunities in the treatment of gastric cancer

   • Tetsuo Taguchi
   • James Bishop

   Preface Pages: 1 - 3

2. The epidemiology of gastric cancer

   • David M. Roder

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 11

3. The role of surgery in the current treatment of gastric carcinoma

   • Hiroshi Furukawa
   • Hiroshi Imamura
   • Yasuhiro Kodera

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 16

4. The role of chemotherapy in the current treatment of gastric cancer

   • Eric van Cutsem
   • Daniel Haller
   • Atsushi Ohtsu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 22

5. Docetaxel and cisplatin in patients with advanced gastric cancer: results of Japanese phase I/II study

   • Soh Saitoh
   • Yuh Sakata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 26

6. European experience of docetaxel and cisplatin in advanced gastric cancer

   • Arnaud D. Roth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 29

7. Docetaxel in combination for advanced gastric cancer

   • Jaffer A. Ajani

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 34

8. Advances in the therapy of gastric cancer

   • John S. Macdonald

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 40