Carcinoma of the Stomach

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Abstract
SURGICAL experience with carcinoma of the stomach at the Massachusetts General Hospital has been reviewed by Parsons1 in previous papers covering the years 1922 to 1926, and the period from 1927 to 1936 by Parsons and Welch.2 This report includes all patients admitted to this hospital on whom the diagnosis was made during the ten-year period 1937 to 1946 inclusive.In the compilation of these figures, it is, of course, our hope to show that increased knowledge of the disease and its amenability to surgical attack have resulted in a steadily increasing five-year salvage rate. But it is of equal . . .