[International perspectives on the treatment of gastric cancer].
Our experience of treatment of gastric cancer in European and developing countries suggested the necessity of the establishment of both operative and chemotherapeutic modalities. These modalities should be first based on theoretically convincing data and secondarily well analyzed from the viewpoint of cost-effectiveness.
Kobori
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Dept. of Surgery, International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
Sano
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Horikoshi
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D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003906:Developing Countries; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*