Inc. Blood vessel numbers as an indicator of prognosis - Stomach cancer is a decreasing clinical problem in the US and Europe, but in Japan it is the cause of a very significant fraction of all cancer deaths.
Metastatic disease has a poor prognosis.
There was an increase in blood-spread metastases, but not in abdominal cavity metastases as the number of vessels increased. In contrast, no relationship was seen between vessel counts and lymph node metastases. Tumor vascularization appeared to be a very good prognostic indicator for this disease. Cancer Web Report , and the February 1996 Cancer Web Report on colorectal cancer and neuroblastoma . Bone-marrow micrometastases may be a valuable guide to the need for adjuvant therapy.