Histopathological studies on autopsied cases of stomach cancer treated with anticancerous drugs.

Researches on antica-icerous drugs are advancing by leaps and bounds, innumerable drugs having been subjected t) clinical trial already,l)2)3)4)5)6)7)8)9) 10)11)12) but no ideal anticancerous drug has been yet announced . For discovery of a better anticancerous drug, it seems indispensable to rescrutinize the effect of such agents in current use on the malignant neoplasms in humanbody more fundamentally, to grasp the demerits as well as the merits of the individual preparations advertized as anticancerous. From such a veiw point, the present author made a histopathological investigation of the effect of administering of such drugs, using specimens obtained from autopsied cases of stomach cancer, the cancer most frequent among the Japanese, as materials.In the foll iwing, a summary report on the outstanding results is presented.