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Letters
Gastric Cancer Staging in Japan: a Comparison with British Practice
To the Editor:
I have recently had the opportunity and privilege of visiting the National Cancer Centre Hospital (NCCH), Tokyo, for four weeks in February 1997.
This was my second visit to Japan. I had previously visited Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine for one week in 1994 and during this short visit I was so impressed with the overall approach to the management of gastric cancer that I was determined to visit Japan again.
The NCCH has previously received several visitors from Britain and organisation of the visit was fairly straightforward.
On my arrival at the NCCH it soon became apparent that it is a popular unit to visit as there were three other visitors (from Singapore, Italy and Uruguay) in the Gastric Cancer Division alone.
The main objective of my visit to the NCCH was to observe at first