Abstract

Gut 35: A1680-A1682 A1 680 1994; Cancer was held on 17 1994 at the of The 1994 meeting of the British Stomach Group June University Liverpool, Royal at the are below.* Liverpool Hospital. The abstracts presented meeting printed of the molecular of proximal gastric cancer and distal gastric the gastric mucosa. However, little is known Comparison genetics in and cancer in view of their different about the cellular localisation of gastrin stomach cancers Britain Japan: epidemiology, and possible aetiology. receptors in the stomach. cErbB2 and p53 prognosis, 80 consecu- The availability of 2C 1, a monoclonal Formalin fixed specimens of P MCCULLOCH, A OCHIAI, J O'DOWD, J NASH, tive human tumours resected in our unit were antibody directed against the canine parietal studied. Satisfactory tissue and staining was cell receptor, has permitted the immuno- M SASAKO, S HIROHASHI (Departments of in mouse anti- localisation of receptors Surgery and Pathology, University of Liverpool obtained 69 tumours using cytochemical gastrin DO-7 with microwave in the human mucosa to be under- and National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo) human antibody gastric in embedded The incidence, stage at diagnosis, and cur- incubation. taken formalin fixed, paraffin of cancer differ tissue. ability gastric markedly between