Main description:

* Contributors are internationally known experts

* Richly illustrated

* Focuses on the differences of diagnostic methods between Japan and other countries by using endoscopic and pathologic pictures

* For the first time, the Japanese progress in the field is published in English and made accessible to researchers worldwide

Contents:

Part I Case Presentation: Clinical Data, Endoscopic Picture, Pathology: Early Cancer of the Stomach (Case 1-12).- Early Cancer of the Colorectal (Case 13-19).- Superficial Carcinoma of the Esophagus (Case 20-24).- Comments on the Variability of the Diagnosis.- Part II Vienna Consensus Criteria for Pathological Diagnosis.- Part III Early Neoplasia in Barrett's Esophagus.- Part IV Detection of Early Cancer: Is Endoscopic Ultrasonography Effective?: Gastric Cancer.- Colorectal Cancer.- Esophageal Cancer.- Gastrointestinal Tract Cancer in Europe.- New Trends in Endoscopic Ultrasonography.- Part V Endoscopic Treatment: Gastric Cancer.- Colorectal Cancer.- Management of Colorectal Cancer by 'Hot Biopsy' and Snare Resection.- Esophageal Cancer: Photodynamic Therapy.- Esophageal Cancer: Endoscopic Mucosal Resection.- Part VI Natural Course of Early Cancer: Gastric Cancer.- Colorectal Cancer: Retrospective, Prospective, and Histologic Observations.- Colorectal Cancer: Ulcerative Colitis-Associated Neoplasia.- Colorectal Cancer: The Importance of Depressed Lesion in the Development of Colorectal Cancer.- Esophageal Cancer.- Part VII Surgical Treatment and Survival Rate of Early Cancer.