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Patients with gastric cardiac cancer are usually asymptomatic, especially at the early stage. The misdiagnosis rate was reported to be over 40% because of the lack of appropriate evaluation. Since upper endoscopy with biopsies remains the most important diagnostic tool for discovery of this cancer, it is crucial for endoscopists to perform a systematic thorough examination with biopsies. Once diagnosed pathologically, the patient with this cancer needs to be worked up for clinical staging, especially for risk of nodal metastasis to determine the best management strategy.

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  1. Department of Gastroenterology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Chenggong Yu

  2. Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

    Guifang Xu

  3. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA, USA

    Qin Huang

  4. Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Qin Huang

  5. Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

    Tingshan Lin

  6. Harvard Medical School, VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

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Yu, C., Xu, G., Huang, Q., Lin, T., Lew, E. (2018). Diagnosis. In: Huang, Q. (eds) Gastric Cardiac Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79114-2_9

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