Evaluation of the new American Joint Committee on Cancer/International Union Against Cancer classification of lymph node metastasis from gastric carcinoma in comparison with the Japanese classification

Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 553-558

  Ichikura, Takashi ^a   Tomimatsu, Soichi ^a   Uefuji, Kazuhiko ^a   Kimura, Mikihiko ^a   Uchida, Takefumi ^a   Morita, Daisaku ^a   Mochizuki, Hidetaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric carcinoma; Japanese classification; Lymph node metastasis; TNM classification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033566687     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990815)86:4<553::AID-CNCR2>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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