Clinicopathological risk factors for gastric cancer: a retrospective cohort study in China.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To examine the potential clinicopathological factors affecting the prognosis of patients with gastric cancer after surgical treatment in China. METHODS:Between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2012, a total of 716 patients aged 22-84 years with gastric cancer were enrolled in the study. Survival analysis techniques including log rank test and Cox proportional hazard regression model were applied to evaluate the prognostic significance of clinicopathological characteristics in terms of survival time. RESULTS:Of the 24 demographic and pathological variables collected in the data, 16 prognostic factors of gastric cancer were found to have statistically significant influences on survival time from the unadjusted analyses. The adjusted analysis furtherly revealed that age, age square, l

SUBMITTER: Hu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6756371 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature