Prognostic value of tumor size in gastric cancer: An analysis of 2,379 patients

Tumor Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1027-1035

  Guo, Pengtao ^a   Li, Yangming ^a   Zhu, Zhi ^a   Sun, Zhe ^a   Lu, Chong ^a   Wang, Zhenning ^a   Xu, Huimian ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Prognosis; Tumor size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877107479     PISSN: 10104283     EISSN: 14230380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13277-012-0642-6     Document Type: Article

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