Prognostic value of the seventh AJCC/UICC TNM classification of non-cardia gastric cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The TNM staging criteria for gastric carcinoma have seen numerous revisions, the most recent of which are reflected in the seventh edition AJCC TNM cancer staging manual.

Methods

A retrospective evaluation of the sixth and seventh TNM classification of gastric cancer on a prospective database, regarding patients operated on for primary gastric cancer, was conducted. The end point of the study was prognosis evaluation in terms of overall survival.Patients operated on for primary gastric cancer between September 2003 and March 2012 at our Department of Emergency and General Surgery, were consecutively retrieved in this study; a total of 114 patients were considered. Cardia gastric cancers, gastric lymphomas and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) were excluded. M

SUBMITTER: Graziosi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3686645 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature