Review: gastric carcinoma in Japan.
Gastric carcinomas in Japan remain one of the major problems in clinical medicine. Diagnosis and treatment of increasing "early carcinomas" should be emphasized. A review of chronological studies of gastric carcinomas has shown several changes in the clinicopathological aspects of gastric carcinomas over the last few decades.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*