Evaluation of the Seventh American Joint Committee on Cancer/International Union Against Cancer Classification of gastric adenocarcinoma in comparison with the sixth classification

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 5592-5598

  Ahn, Hye Seong ^a   Lee, Hyuk Joon ^a,b   Hahn, Seokyung ^b   Kim, Woo Ho ^b   Lee, Kuhn Uk ^a   Sano, Takeshi ^c   Edge, Stephen B ^d   Yang, Han Kwang ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

American Joint Committee on Cancer International Union Against Cancer Classification; gastric adenocarcinoma; pathology; surgery; survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78650115024     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25550     Document Type: Article

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