[Early stomach carcinoma].

Geographical and epidemiologic investigations in recent years have thrown light on the determining factors in chronic atrophic gastritis and the intestinal type of gastric carcinoma. It is now proven that the majority of early gastric cancers have the exact symptoms of the ulcer type. Diagnosis is by endoscopy and biopsy. Uncritical therapy of an ulcer-like symptomatology by H2-receptor blockers must be rejected.