Comparative study of the 7th and 8th AJCC editions for gastric cancer patients after curative surgery.

The classification of pathological tumor-node-metastasis (pTNM) staging of gastric cancer was revised in the 8th American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) edition. The major revision was the separation of pN3a and pN3b in the pTNM staging. The current study evaluated the prognostic impact of this ch...

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Main Authors: Wen-Liang Fang, Kuo-Hung Huang, Ming-Huang Chen, Chien-An Liu, Yi-Ping Hung, Yee Chao, Ling-Chen Tai, Su-Shun Lo, Anna Fen-Yau Li, Chew-Wun Wu, Yi-Ming Shyr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5683565?pdf=render