1. Gastric cancer treated in 1991 in Japan: data analysis of nationwide registry

   • Japanese Gastric Cancer Association Registration Committee
   • Keiichi Maruyama
   • Atsushi Nashimoto

   Special article Pages: 51 - 66

2. Long-term outcome and surveillance policy after endoscopic therapy for early gastric cancer

   • Kentaro Sugano

   Editorial Pages: 67 - 69

3. Preoperative diagnosis of lymph node metastasis: a dream?

   • John C. Lipham
   • Tom R. DeMeester

   Editorial Pages: 70 - 71

4. Neoadjuvant S-1 and cisplatin for gastric carcinoma: there will be more to come

   • Yasuhiro Kodera

   Editorial Pages: 72 - 73

5. Follow-up of gastric cancer: a review

   • John Whiting
   • Takeshi Sano
   • Mitsuru Sasako

   Review article Pages: 74 - 81

6. Chemotherapy sensitivity and resistance testing: to be “standard” or to be individualized, that is the question

   • Tetsuro Kubota
   • Larry Weisenthal

   Review article Pages: 82 - 87

7. Longterm outcomes after endoscopic mucosal resection for early gastric cancer

   • Noriya Uedo
   • Hiroyasu Iishi
   • Shingo Ishiguro

   Original article Pages: 88 - 92

8. Metachronous gastric cancers after endoscopic resection: how effective is annual endoscopic surveillance?

   • Takeshi Nakajima
   • Ichiro Oda
   • Daizo Saito

   Original article Pages: 93 - 98

9. Phase II multicenter trial of docetaxel, epirubicin, and 5-fluorouracil (DEF) in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer: a novel, safe, and active regimen

   • André M. Murad
   • Nils G. Skare
   • Brazilian Gastric Cancer Study Group, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

   Original article Pages: 99 - 105

10. Protein levels of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 in tumor extracts as a marker for prognosis and recurrence in patients with gastric cancer

    • Takaki Yoshikawa
    • Akira Tsuburaya
    • Yohei Miyagi

    Original article Pages: 106 - 113

11. A feasibility study of sequential paclitaxel and S-1 (PTX/S-1) chemotherapy as postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer

    • Michiya Kobayashi
    • Akira Tsuburaya
    • Junichi Sakamoto

    Original article Pages: 114 - 119

12. Preoperative diagnosis of lymph node metastases in gastric cancer by magnetic resonance imaging with ferumoxtran-10

    • Yoshiaki Tatsumi
    • Nobuhiko Tanigawa
    • Isamu Narabayashi

    Original article Pages: 120 - 128

13. Retrospective analysis of 45 consecutive patients with advanced gastric cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy using an S-1/CDDP combination

    • Seiji Satoh
    • Suguru Hasegawa
    • Yoshiharu Sakai

    Original article Pages: 129 - 135

14. Histological complete response in advanced gastric cancer after 2 weeks of S-1 administration as neoadjuvant chemotherapy

    • Shusuke Mori
    • Hirofumi Kishimoto
    • Kayoko Higuchi

    Case report Pages: 136 - 139

15. Longterm survival of a Western patient with metastatic gastric cancer treated with S-1 plus cisplatin

    • Eric D. Tetzlaff
    • Josephine Faust
    • Jaffer A. Ajani

    Case report Pages: 140 - 143