Open AccessPrognostic Value of the Anatomic Region of Metastatic Lymph Nodes in the Current TNM Staging of Gastric Cancer
Author(s) -
Oh Jeong,
Mi Ran Jung,
Ji Hoon Kang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of gastric cancer/daehan wiam haghoeji
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.806
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2093-5641
pISSN - 1598-1320
DOI - 10.5230/jgc.2021.21.e22
Subject(s) - medicine , stage (stratigraphy) , tnm staging system , hazard ratio , metastasis , multivariate analysis , cancer , radiology , lymph , confidence interval , lymph node , t stage , oncology , gastrectomy , carcinoma , pathology , staging system , paleontology , biology
The numeric N stage has replaced the topographic N stage in the current tumor node metastasis (TNM) staging in gastric carcinoma. However, the usefulness of the topographic N stage in the current TNM staging system is uncertain. We aimed to investigate the prognostic value of the topographic N stage in the current TNM staging system.