| Theme | Significance, Problems, and Future Prospect of the Gastric Cancer Treatment Guideline | |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Legal Significance of "The Gastric Cancer Treatment Guidelines" | |
| Publish Date | 2003/02 | |
| Author | Toshiharu Furukawa | Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University / TMI associates |
| [ Summary ] | "The Gastric Cancer Treatment Guidelines" published by The Japanese Gastric Cancer Society is considered to be the most authoritative general guideline laid out by the most authorized committee on this disease. It is highly possible that these standard, laid out in the guideline, may be usable in court cases. It may be used as the most evident proof in court, to judge both of quality of the medical treatment and of informed consent. Moreover, for doctors in the principal institutes concerned with these areas of treatment, the contents of the guideline may be considered to constitute the pertinent medical standards even before it was published as a guideline. | |