Gastric Surgery: A Review of the Literature

Carcinoma of the Stomach

“…All recent reports show that the proportion of "resec table" cancers now reaching the surgeon has increased and that the mortality of operation has greatly decreased during the past decade (Pack and McNeer, 1948;Marshall and Phillips, 1949;Engel, 1947 ;Walters, Gray, Priestly, and Waugh, 1948), and since the publication of Walton's figures in 1939-figures which could have been equalled by few of this contemporaries and excelled by none. This increase in resectability rate is probably not due so much to earlier diagnosis, though there are very welcome signs of improvement here, as to the great widening of the boundaries of surgery itself.…”