1. Meeting report of the 76th Congress of the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association.
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Kaibara, Nobuaki, Otani, Yoshihide, Inoue, Haruhiro, Maehara, Yoshihiko, Kaminishi, Michio, Yasui, Wataru, Takahashi, Yutaka, Yamaue, Hiroki, Yamamura, Yoshitaka, Hiratsuka, Masahiro, Yoshida, Shigeaki, Hattori, Takanori, Koizumi, Wasaburo, Sugano, Kentaro, Tsunoda, Tsukasa, Hirakawa, Kosei, Matsumoto, Sumio, and Konishi, Toshiro
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,BIOPSY ,DIAGNOSTIC specimens ,GASTROINTESTINAL diseases ,CANCER - Abstract
The article presents information on the 76th Congress of the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association which was held at the Yonago Convention Center in Tottori, Japan during March 4-6, 2004. Six speakers made presentations. Professor Y. Kitagawa explained the historical background and the current status of sentinel node (SN) biopsy for gastric cancer. After the presentations, five updated subjects of interest for SN biopsy were discussed by six speakers. In the last part of the discussion, the necessity for multicenter trials in order to advance the clinical application of SN biopsy in gastric cancer surgery in Japan was reconfirmed by all speakers and by the audience at the symposium.
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- 2004
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