A comparison between the seventh and sixth editions of the American joint committee on cancer/international union against classification of gastric cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-86

  Zhang, Jizhun ^a   Niu, Zhaojian ^a   Zhou, Yanbing ^a   Cao, Shougen ^a  

^a QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AJCC UICC; gastric cancer; TNM classificaition

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; OXALIPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871609230     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31825eff3f     Document Type: Article

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