<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">KUNISAKI, CHIKARA</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">AKIYAMA, HIROTOSHI</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">NOMURA, MASATO</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MATSUDA, GORO</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OTSUKA, YUICHI</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ONO, HIDETAKA ANDREW</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">NAGAHORI, YUTAKA</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">TAKAHASHI, MASAZUMI</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">KITO, FUMIHIKO</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SHIMADA, HIROSHI</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Clinicopathological Properties of Poorly-differentiated Adenocarcinoma of the Stomach: Comparison of Solid- and Non-solid-types</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anticancer Research</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006-01-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">639-646</style></pages><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">26</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1B</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Background: The purpose of this study was to clarify the clinicopathological and biological properties of the poorly-differentiated types of gastric carcinoma (solid-type and non-solid-type). Patients and Methods: A total of 1,558 patients with primary gastric adenocarcinomas were enrolled in this study. The surgical results were compared. Results: Patients with non-solid-type tumors tended to be younger females with peritoneal or lymph node metastases and lymphatic invasion, and with tumors that were ill-defined, of larger diameter and deeper. Those patients with differentiated tumors tended to have the opposite characteristics of those patients with non-solid-type tumors. Patients with solid-type tumors had intermediate characteristics. The survival in patients with non-solid-type tumors was poor compared to those with differentiated or solid-type tumors. There was a significant difference in the survival of stage III tumors with either solid- or non-solid-type tumors (p=0.0480). Conclusion: Therapeutic strategies should be based on the histological type of the tumor in patients with poorly-differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma. Copyright© 2006 International Institute of Anticancer Research (Dr. John G. Delinassios), All rights reserved</style></abstract></record></records></xml>