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The effectiveness of surgery for palliation of incurable gastric cancer

✍ Scribed by Walter Lawrence Jr.; Gordon McNeer

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1958
Tongue: English
Weight: 378 KB
Volume: 11
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(195801/02)11:1<28::aid-cncr2820110108>3.0.co;2-7

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✦ Synopsis

SIGNIFICANT proportion of patients with

A gastric cancer is beyond hope of cure at the time of initial examination or surgical exploration. In a study of 1,623 such patients seen in the years 1931 to 1955 (Gastric Service, Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, N. Y.), only 551 (or 33.9%)

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