1. Prediction of clinical outcome of fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy for gastric cancer patients, in terms of the 5-fluorouracil metabolic pathway

   • Wataru Ichikawa

   Review article Pages: 145 - 155

2. Gastric-and-intestinal mixed-type intestinal metaplasia: aberrant expression of transcription factors and stem cell intestinalization

   • Tetsuya Tsukamoto
   • Tsutomu Mizoshita
   • Masae Tatematsu

   Review article Pages: 156 - 166

3. Laparoscopic gastrectomy with lymph node dissection for gastric cancer

   • Norio Shiraishi
   • Kazuhiro Yasuda
   • Seigo Kitano

   Review article Pages: 167 - 176

4. Gastric-type well-differentiated adenocarcinoma and pyloric gland adenoma of the stomach

   • Ryoji Kushima
   • Michael Vieth
   • Takanori Hattori

   Review article Pages: 177 - 184

5. A phase II study of combined chemotherapy with methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil, and low-dose cisplatin (MFP) for histologically diffuse-type advanced and recurrent gastric cancer (KDOG9501)

   • Norisuke Nakayama
   • Wasaburo Koizumi
   • Katsunori Saigenji

   Original article Pages: 185 - 191

6. Usefulness of preoperative FDG-PET for detection of gastric cancer

   • Kota Mukai
   • Yasuhiko Ishida
   • Shoji Nishiyama

   Original article Pages: 192 - 196

7. Assessment of lymph node micrometastasis in early gastric cancer in relation to sentinel nodes

   • Kunitomo Miyake
   • Akiyoshi Seshimo
   • Shingo Kameoka

   Original article Pages: 197 - 202

8. Combination chemotherapy with irinotecan and cisplatin in pretreated patients with unresectable or recurrent gastric cancer

   • Shinya Ueda
   • Shuichi Hironaka
   • Yusuke Onozawa

   Original article Pages: 203 - 207

9. Community-based familial study of Helicobacter pylori infection among healthy Japanese Brazilians

   • Lucy S. Ito
   • Sueli M. Oba-Shinjo
   • Nobuyuki Hamajima

   Original article Pages: 208 - 216

10. Relative value of repeat gastric ulcer surveillance gastroscopy in diagnosing gastric cancer

    • A. Neil Hopper
    • Michael R. Stephens
    • Miles C. Allison

    Original article Pages: 217 - 222

11. Intratumoral heterogeneity of MIB-1 labelling index in gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)

    • Hiroshi Yasui
    • Eiichi Konishi
    • Akio Yanagisawa

    Original article Pages: 223 - 228

12. Helicobacter pylori-negative / API2-MALT1 translocation-negative low-grade MALT lymphoma

    • Koji Nozaki
    • Sachiyo Nomura
    • Michio Kaminishi

    Case report Pages: 229 - 234

13. Recurrent gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) of the stomach associated with a novel c-kit mutation after imatinib treatment

    • Tomoki Koyama
    • Hiroshi Nimura
    • Katsuhiko Yanaga

    Case report Pages: 235 - 239

14. Population-attributable fractions in gastric cancer risk factors: the necessity to focus on Helicobacter pylori infection

    • Shinkan Tokudome
    • Akihiro Hosono
    • Sadao Suzuki

    Letter to the editor Pages: 240 - 241