Epidemiology of digestive tract cancers in India. II. Stomach, and gastrointestinal lymphomas.

The incidence of stomach cancer and GI lymphomas is low in most parts of India. There is paucity of analytical epidemiologic data on these from India. While the time trends for the incidence of gastric cancer are encouraging, most cancers are diagnosed in an advanced stage when long-term cure is only a remote possibility. Multi-center epidemiologic studies should be undertaken to solve some of the enigmas and observations peculiar to India.