Prognostic implications of the seventh edition of the international union against cancer classification for patients with gastric cancer: The western experience of patients treated in a single-center European institution

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 263-271

  Reim, Daniel ^a   Loos, Martin ^a   Vogl, Fabian ^a   Novotny, Alexand ^a   Schuster, Tibor ^a   Langer, Rupert ^a   Becker, Karen ^a   Höfler, Heinz ^a   Siveke, Jens ^a   Bassermann, Florian ^a   Friess, Helmut ^a   Schuhmacher, Christo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872449273     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.44.4315     Document Type: Article

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