The majority of malignant tumors of the stomach are carcinomas. It has been reported in the literature that lymphomas consist of 1%-5% of all malignant tumors of the stomach (1). The simultaneous coexistence of adenocarcinoma and malignant lymphoma of the stomach is extremely rare (1-5). Gastric carcinoma and primary gastric lymphoma have shown to be related to Helicobacter pylori infection (3)...

We report a 65-year-old patient with a gastric polyp of 2.5 cm in diameter located at the cardia on upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy. Pathological examination of the excised polyp showed intramucosal carcinoma. Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) reported the lesion as early gastric carcinoma with probable submucosal involvement. On serial sections of the gastrectomy material, the lesion was ...

The outcome was studied of gastric carcinoma found in six selected mass survey groups. One-hundred-and-thirty-seven cases of gastric carcinoma were detected and followed-up postoperatively for 16 years at the longest. They consisted of 55 cases of early and 74 of advanced carcinoma with eight cases of unknown depth of involvement. Early carcinoma amounted to 42-6% of the cases with known depth ...

Purpose: We sought to determine whether cyclosporin-A (CsA) enhances docetaxel [Taxotere (TXT)]induced apoptosis in human gastric carcinoma cells, and, if so, to determine the relation between this apoptosis and nuclear factorB (NFB) activation. Experimental Design: Two human gastric carcinoma cell lines (GCTM-1 and MK-1), a human embryonic pulmonary fibroblast cell line, and human umbilical ve...

BACKGROUND We studied the variation in plasma content of plasmalogen and ganglioside, total cholesterol (TC), and total phospholipid (TPL) in gastric carcinoma patients. The plasma plasmalogen levels were determined according to the vinyl ester bond method. MATERIAL AND METHODS Plasma ganglioside level was determined according to the method of Sevennerholm. The total cholesterols and total phos...

PURPOSE Laparoscopic total gastrectomy for advanced proximal gastric carcinoma is a complex and challenging procedure, limited to a few expert centers. This study analyzed the short- and long-term outcomes of laparoscopic total gastrectomy for advanced proximal gastric carcinoma compared with open gastrectomy. METHODS From January 2008 to January 2015, 61 patients underwent laparoscopic total...

Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis (ISCM) is a rarely seen complication of cancer. We report a case of ISCM from gastric cancer. A 42-year-old male presented with a rare intramedullary spinal cord metastasis from gastric carcinoma manifesting as rapidly worsening motor and sphincter disturbances. The primary tumor had been treated 2 years previously. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed...

Traditional research modes aim to find cancer-specific single therapeutic target. Recently, emerging evidence suggested that some micro-RNAs (miRNA) can function as oncogenes or tumor suppressors. miRNAs are singlestranded, small noncoding RNA genes that can regulate hundreds of downstream target genes. In this study, we evaluated the miRNA expression patterns in gastric carcinoma and the speci...

OBJECTIVES Expression of HER2 in gastric carcinoma has direct prognostic and therapeutic implications in patient management. The aim of this study is to determine whether a relationship exists between standardized uptake value (SUV) and expression of HER2 in advanced gastric carcinoma. METHODS We analyzed the (18)F-FDG PET/CT results of 109 patients that underwent gastrectomy for advanced gas...

BACKGROUND Human runt-related transcription factor gene 3 (RUNX3) is considered as a possible candidate of tumour suppressor gene in human gastric carcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS To investigate the RUNX3 protein expression in human gastric mucosa and carcinoma, we generated a polyclonal antibody, AS251, which recognized amino acid sequences from 251 to 266 of human RUNX3. The AS251 antibody ...