Abstract
We have conducted a study of stomach cancer on the basis of death certificates filed within the province of the Asahikawa Heaith Center, covering the ten years from 1951 to 1960. Mortality from all cancers and that from stomach cancer within that province are both of them lower than those of the whole nation and of Hokkaido. The mortality from stomach cancer is, in both sexes, a little higher in rural than in urban districts. In both sexes, more than half of the stomach cancer patients died within 6 months of its onset. The mortality curve makes a peak on the 6th month of the ailment, and the succeeding downward curve makes another sharp climb around the end of one year. As for the place of death, most of the patients died at home; few of them were admitted to hospitals or clinics, especially so with rural women.
