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Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology 30:369-370 (2000)
© 2000 Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research

Letters to the Editor

Lessons in Treatment of Gastric Cancer: Viewpoint of a UK Surgeon

Ramesh Gupta

To the Editor:

I think it was a Frenchman who said that good teachers did not satisfy your thirst for knowledge—they made you more thirsty. For this reason, I had mixed emotions when my boss asked me if I wanted to go to The National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo to see how gastric operations really should be done. My immediate response was to grab the opportunity of visiting a centre where the reputation for gastric operating was second to none. My second response was concern about how I, a strict teetotal vegetarian, would survive in a country whose culinary habits revolved around fish and meat. One downward glance at my ample abdominal girth (which . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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