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Predictors of overall survival after surgery in gastric cancer patients from a Latin-American country

Author(s) -

Eugenia Cordero García,

Allan Ramos-Esquivel,

Warner AlpízarAlpízar

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of gastrointestinal oncology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.084

H-Index - 39

eISSN - 2219-679X

pISSN - 2078-6891

DOI - 10.21037/jgo.2017.10.07

Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , confidence interval , proportional hazards model , cancer , gastrectomy , univariate analysis , surgery , stage (stratigraphy) , cohort , multivariate analysis , gastroenterology , paleontology , biology

Gastric cancer is one of the major causes of cancer-related deaths in several Latin-American countries, including Costa Rica. However, determinants of poor outcomes are fairly unknown for patients from this region. The aim of this study was to determine prognostic variables of overall survival (OS) in a cohort of Hispanic patients after curative-intent surgery for gastric cancer.

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