Open AccessA Novel Approach for Gastric Cancer Staging in Elderly Patients Based on the Lymph Node Ratio
Author(s) -
Joonseon Park,
Chul Hyo Jeon,
So Jung Kim,
Ho Seok Seo,
Kyo Young Song,
Han Hong Lee
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.e9
Subject(s) - medicine , lymph node , hazard ratio , gastrectomy , cancer , cancer staging , lymph , multivariate analysis , proportional hazards model , oncology , dissection (medical) , surgery , confidence interval , pathology
To date, no studies have been performed on staging based on the lymph node ratio (LNR) in elderly patients with gastric cancer who may require limited lymph node (LN) dissection due to morbidity and tissue fragility. We aimed to develop a new N staging system using the LNR in elderly patients with gastric cancer.