1. Sentinel node mapping for gastric cancer: is the jury still out?

   • Yuko Kitagawa
   • Masaki Kitajima

   Editorial Pages: 135 - 137

2. Submitting an article on gastric cancer: to which journal?

   • Yasuhiro Kodera

   Editorial Pages: 138 - 139

3. TNM and Japanese staging systems for gastric cancer: how do they coexist?

   • Mazin E. Sayegh
   • Takeshi Sano
   • Mitsuru Sasako

   Review article Pages: 140 - 148

4. An assessment of the feasibility of sentinel lymph node-guided surgery for gastric cancer

   • Hiroshi Isozaki
   • Toshikazu Kimura
   • the Esophagus Gastrointestinal (EGI) Surgical Treatment Study Group* 

   Original article Pages: 149 - 153

5. Pathologic characteristics of gastric cancer in the elderly: a retrospective study of 994 surgical patients

   • Tomio Arai
   • Yukiyoshi Esaki
   • Kaiyo Takubo

   Original article Pages: 154 - 159

6. Regulation of drug sensitivity of gastric cancer cells by human calcyclin-binding protein (CacyBP)

   • Yongquan Shi
   • Wenhua Hu
   • Daiming Fan

   Original article Pages: 160 - 166

7. Prospective randomized study of two laparotomy incisions for gastrectomy: midline incision versus transverse incision

   • Tsuyoshi Inaba
   • Kota Okinaga
   • Hideki Yamada

   Original article Pages: 167 - 171

8. An appraisal of gastric cancer research in cancer journals

   • Nuno Lunet
   • Rui Carvalho
   • Henrique Barros

   Special communication Pages: 172 - 175

9. Route from the paraaortic lymphatic system to the tracheobronchial lymph nodes evidenced on lymphangiogram in a patient with gastric cancer

   • Yasushi Rino
   • Toshio Imada
   • Hisahiko Motohashi

   Case report Pages: 176 - 177

10. Gastric carcinoma in a 13-year-old girl

    • Fernanda Deutsch
    • Bruno Zilberstein
    • Joaquim José Gama-Rodrigues

    Case report Pages: 178 - 182

11. Letter to the editor

    • Federico Bozzetti
    • Giovanni de Manzoni
    • Giuseppe Verlato

    Letter to the editor Pages: 183 - 184