Gastric Cancer in The East and West What Should We Learn

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Gastric Cancer (2016) 19:1

DOI 10.1007/s10120-015-0573-1

FROM THE NEW EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Gastric cancer in the East and West: what should we learn


from each other?
Giovanni de Manzoni1

Published online: 21 November 2015


Ó The International Gastric Cancer Association and The Japanese Gastric Cancer Association 2015

different specialties, is very important to spread new


achievements.
In gastric cancer treatment, Eastern and Western coun-
tries still have different approaches: not only the surgical
approach, but also adjuvant and neoadjuvant choices
change a lot according to the continent.
Publishing the most outstanding studies on gastric can-
cer will give us the possibility to compare results reported
all over the world in terms of tumor biology, surgical
approaches, and preoperative/postoperative treatment. I
believe that soon this will be a way to enable us to
understand better why there are differences in outcomes
reported in Eastern and Western series. It will also be very
When the Council Board of the International Gastric
important to encourage submissions dealing with esopha-
Cancer Association asked me to represent the Western side
gogastric junction cancer, a cancer with rising incidence.
of our society and to join Yuko Kitagawa as a co-editor-in-
By working hard with Yuko Kitagawa, I intend to
chief of Gastric Cancer, I was very enthusiastic.
maintain the excellent scientific level reached by the
In recent years, a multidisciplinary approach to gastric
journal in recent years and to increase the number of
cancer has become essential, and I strongly believe that our
contributions from the Western world.
journal, focused on gastric cancer and covering all the

& Giovanni de Manzoni


giovanni.demanzoni@univr.it
1
Upper GI Surgery Division, University of Verona, Verona,
Italy

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