Is the new seventh AJCC/UICC staging system appropriate for patients with gastric cancer?

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 88-96

  Yoon, Hong Man ^a   Ryu, Keun Won ^a   Nam, Byung Ho ^a   Cho, Soo Jeong ^a   Park, Sook Ryun ^a   Lee, Jong Yeul ^a   Lee, Jun Ho ^a   Kook, Myeong Cherl ^a   Choi, Il Ju ^a   Kim, Young Woo ^a  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84355162915     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.09.018     Document Type: Article

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