Seventh edition (2010) of the AJCC/UICC staging system for gastric adenocarcinoma: Is there room for improvement?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1631-1638

  Patel, Manali I ^a   Rhoads, Kim F ^b   Ma, Yifei ^b   Ford, James M ^a   Visser, Brendan C ^b   Kunz, Pamela L ^a   Fisher, George A ^a   Chang, Daniel T ^b   Koong, Albert ^b   Norton, Jeffrey A ^b   Poultsides, George A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POPULATION; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880074642     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-012-2724-5     Document Type: Article

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