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Factors in the prognosis of gastric lymphoma
Author(s) -
Lim Fong E.,
Hartman Arnold S.,
Tan Eric G. C.,
Cady Blake,
Meissner William A.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197704)39:4<1715::aid-cncr2820390449>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - medicine , gastric carcinoma , lymphoma , gastric lymphoma , survival rate , stomach , stage (stratigraphy) , gastroenterology , carcinoma , 5 year survival rate , survival analysis , oncology , pathology , cancer , paleontology , biology
The tumor‐nodes‐metastases (TNM) staging classification for gastric carcinoma was applied to 50 consecutive cases of primary gastric lymphoma. Survival statistics were obtained for each respective stage category and were remarkably similar to survival statistics for gastric carcinoma. Overall, patients with primary gastric lymphoma have a much better prognosis for survival than patients with gastric carcinoma since the latter present with far more frequent serosal penetration and nodal and distant metastases. Penetration of gastric lymphoma beyond the serosa is associated with a significantly decreased 5‐year survival rate from 88 to 24%, and the presence of perigastric nodal involvement decreased the survival rate from 88 to 32%.