Carcinoma and Other Malignant Lesions of the Stomach

Abstract

This book of twenty-three chapters, contributions to which were made by fourteen of the authors' associates on the Mayo Clinic staff, is a thorough discussion of all phases of the problem of cancer of the stomach. Coming from a medical center which possesses such rich material and dealing with a disease which has an alleged annual toll of 38,000 persons in the United States, it combines reviews of experimental data, clinical opinions based on experience, and statistical evidence from which tenets of etiology, diagnosis and treatment may be formulated and clarified. On the side of etiology, the relationship of gastritis to carcinoma, a vital topic of present day discussion, is treated by Morlock and Hartman in their chapter on Recognition of Malignant Lesions of the Stomach, whose opinion it is that "it is just as important to keep patients with gastritis under a period of continuous observation as it is