Review for 10.1186/s12876-020-01354-4 (2020)

Reviewer’s report
Title: The diffuse-type gastric cancer epidemiology enigma
Version: 2 Date: 09 May 2020
Reviewer: Petra Hudler
Reviewer's report:
The authors have responded satisfactorily to all comments. 
I  would  suggest  just  one  minor  correction  -  in  sentence  "Table  1  presents  comparatively  the
characteristics of the histological types of de Lauren." replace "de" with "the".
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