Validation of staging systems for gastric cancer

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-118

  Yamashita, Keishi ^a   Sakuramoto, Shinichi ^a   Kikuchi, Shiroh ^a   Katada, Natsuya ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric Cancer; MP; Staging; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; EARLY CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 46449112463     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-008-0466-7     Document Type: Article

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