[Trends in the mortality from stomach tumors in Italy from 1951 to 1981].

In Italy the mortality rate for gastric cancer is still very high compared to that of other European countries, with marched differences between the regions (age-adjusted rates were much higher in the North than in the South). On the basis of official certifications, gastric cancer ranks as the second cause of death from cancer in both sexes, only surpassed by tumors of respiratory tract in men an…