Treatment of early gastric cancer in the elderly: Leave it, cut out, peel out?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 872-874

  Lambert, Rene ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURVIVAL; EARLY CANCER; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; JAPAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; JAPAN; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 27844493249     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2005.06.039     Document Type: Editorial

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