文档介绍:Rikiya Fujita, Hiroshi Takahashi (Eds.)
Gastrointestinal Cancer Atlas for
Endoscopic Therapy
Rikiya Fujita, Hiroshi Takahashi (Eds.)
Gastrointestinal Cancer
Atlas for Endoscopic
Therapy
Rikiya Fujita, MD, DMSc, FACG
Consultant, Department of Endoscopy
The Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Emeritus, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshi Takahashi, MD, PhD
Director, Cancer Screening Center
The Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR, Tokyo, Japan
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Preface
Early gastric cancer is routinely diagnosed and now accounts for 70% of all gastric
cancers detected at the Ariake Hospital Cancer Institute. The same is true for early
diagnosis of colorectal and esophageal cancers. The aim of this book is to introduce
techniques for the diagnosis of early cancer, in particular, cancers of less than 5