Prediction of survival in gastric carcinoma related to lymph node grading by the new American Joint Committee on Cancer/Union International contre le Cancer System or the Japanese System

European Journal of Surgery, Supplement

Volumn 168, Issue 588, 2003, Pages 33-39

  Çelen, Orhan ^a,b   Yildirim, Emin ^a   Gülben, Kaptan ^a   Berberoǧlu, Uǧur ^a  

^a Ankara Oncology Teaching and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gastric carcinoma; Japanese classification; Tnm classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0043166759     PISSN: 1102416X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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