@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00015297,
 author = {KATO, KIMIYUKI and KITO, TSUYOSHI and NAKAZATO, HIROAKI and MIYAISHI, SEIICHI and YAMADA, EIKICHI},
 issue = {1-2},
 journal = {Nagoya Journal of Medical Science},
 month = {Sep},
 note = {From January 1965 to December 1972, 1449 patients who underwent lapa· rotomy for gastric cancer at the Aichi Cancer Center Hospital were studied. Of these 1449 patients, 895 had a curative gastrectomy (partial or total gastrectomy with reo moval of the second group lymph nodes that are classified as NX+b according to the TNM classification). The five year survival rate for the 895 patients was 62.5%. This favorable result seems partly due to the fact that the incidence of early gastric cancer was 25% of all operated cases, but, on the other hand, the lower incidence of death observed in patients with early gastric cancer suggests that gastrectomy with removal of the second group lymph nodes is adequate for treatment of gastric cancer. For patients with early gastric cancer, the mortality rate of other diseases after recovery from operation did not differ from people without gastric cancer. In early gastric cancers, no evidence of recurrence has been observed so far in 4 patients who had tumor cells at the lines of resection. The reason for finding is not clear. Early gastric cancer may behave in a more benign fashion than advanced gastric cancer.},
 pages = {35--42},
 title = {Gastric Cancer: Survival Rates with Special Reference to "Early Gastric Cancer"},
 volume = {38},
 year = {1975}
}