Article
Gastric cancer: new genetic developments.
Journal of surgical oncology - 1 Jun 2005
Lynch Henry T, Grady William, Suriano Gianpaolo, Huntsman David
Abstract excerpt
Gastric cancer's (GC) incidence shows large geographic differences worldwide with the lowest rates occurring in most Western industrialized countries including the United States and the United Kingdom; in contrast, relatively high rates of GC occur in Japan, Korea, China, and South America, particularly Chile. The Laurén classification system classifies GC under two major histopathological variants: 1) an...
Topics
- Adenocarcinoma
- Cadherins
- Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Female
- Gastrectomy
- Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
- Genetic Counseling
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Testing
- Germ-Line Mutation
