The National Cancer Data Base report on poor survival of U.S. gastric carcinoma patients treated with gastrectomy: Fifth Edition American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging, Proximal Disease, and the 'Different Disease' Hypothesis

Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 921-932

  Hundahl, Scott A ^a,b   Phillips, Jerri Linn ^c   Menck, Herman R ^c  

^a Quality Integration Committee   (United States)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

Author keywords

10 year survival; 5 year survival; 5th edition American Joint Committee on Cancer stage; Cardia; Gastric cancer; Japanese Americans; Lymph nodes; National Cancer Data Base (NCDB); Stage migration; Stomach cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA BASE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CARCINOMA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034651755     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(20000215)88:4<921::AID-CNCR24>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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