title: Treatment of early gastric cancer in the Western World.
abstract: The incidence rate of gastric cancer is much higher in Asia than in the Western industrial nations. According to the different screening programs in Japan and Korea about fifty percent of treated patients had an early tumor stage. In contrast, European and American patients with gastric cancer had an advanced tumor stage. Therefore, the experience for the various therapeutic options for gastric cancer may be different between these regions. In this review we tried to point out the treatment modalities in Western industrial countries for early gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Elfriede Bollschweiler, Felix Berlth, Christoph Baltin, Stefan Mönig, Arnulf H Hölscher, Department of General, Visceral and Cancer Surgery, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: Elfriede
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bollschweiler
authors.affiliation: Elfriede Bollschweiler, Felix Berlth, Christoph Baltin, Stefan Mönig, Arnulf H Hölscher, Department of General, Visceral and Cancer Surgery, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Berlth
authors.affiliation: Elfriede Bollschweiler, Felix Berlth, Christoph Baltin, Stefan Mönig, Arnulf H Hölscher, Department of General, Visceral and Cancer Surgery, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baltin
authors.affiliation: Elfriede Bollschweiler, Felix Berlth, Christoph Baltin, Stefan Mönig, Arnulf H Hölscher, Department of General, Visceral and Cancer Surgery, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mönig
authors.affiliation: Elfriede Bollschweiler, Felix Berlth, Christoph Baltin, Stefan Mönig, Arnulf H Hölscher, Department of General, Visceral and Cancer Surgery, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: Arnulf H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Hölscher
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D004724:Endoscopy; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D011788:Quality of Life; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D019366:Western World
keywords: Diagnosis; Early cancer; Epidemiology; Gastric cancer; Therapy; Western World