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Pathology and molecular biology of gastric cancer.
Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2006
Vauhkonen Matti, Vauhkonen Hanna, Sipponen Pentti
Abstract excerpt
Several attempts to classify gastric cancer (GCA) have been made over the past decades. Most successful, and widely used, is the classification by Laurén, which distinguishes, by microscopical morphology alone, two main cancer pathogeneses, diffuse (DGCA) and intestinal (IGCA) subtypes, which appear clearly as dissimilar clinical and epidemiological entities. Here we review the main differences in epidemiology,...
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