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The data on 912 patients with early cancer and 1245 with advanced cancer who were seen between 1971 and 1990 were compared. The incidence of undifferentiated-type cancer increased significantly in patients with advanced gastric cancer, but not in patients with early gastric cancer. When the histological types were compared with regard to sex, age and location in patients with early gastric cancer the undifferentiated type was found to increase only in males, while in patients with advanced gastric cancer the undifferentiated type increased in both sexes as well as in younger patients and in both the upper and middle third of the stomach. These differences in the trends between early and advanced cancers are probably due to the different degrees of diagnostic accuracy for the early detection of histological types.
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Ikeda, Y., Mori, M., Kamakura, T. et al. Improvements in diagnosis have changed the incidence of histological types in advanced gastric cancer. Br J Cancer 72, 424–426 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1995.349
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