Comparison of staging between the old (6th edition) and new (7th edition) TNM classifications in advanced gastric cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2361-2365

  Kikuchi, Shiro ^a   Futawatari, Nobue ^a   Sakuramoto, Shinichi ^a   Katada, Natsuya ^a   Yamashita, Keishi ^a   Shibata, Tomotaka ^a   Nemoto, Masayuki ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph node dissection; Prognosis; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960445376     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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