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Because Japan is a country with a very high risk of gastric cancer, its early detection has been a leading, nationwide project of cancer control. As a result, early diagnosis, particularly that achieved by endoscopy, has developed during the past 3 decades with the extension of a radiographic mass survey. Nowadays, early gastric cancer (EGC) is seen regularly in daily clinical practice (Sakita 1983). The diagnostic advance with EGC also encouraged Japanese endoscopists to detect cases of early cancer in the esophagus and the large intestine. This investigation assesses the efficacy of the anticancer strategy of early detection and early treatment by examining the chronological trend in the diagnostic and surgical results on GI malignancies treated at the National Cancer Center Hospital.
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Yoshida, S., Sasako, M., Kato, H., Moriya, N. (1992). Early Detection of Gastrointestinal Cancers: Recent Progress in Endoscopy and Surgical Results. In: Bannasch, P. (eds) Cancer Diagnosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76899-6_5
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