Gastric Cancer

Researchers at Union Hospital Target Gastric Cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 4th, 2011

2011 OCT 4 -- In this recent report, researchers in Fujian, People's Republic of China conducted a study "To investigate the prognostic impact of the number of dissected lymph nodes (LNs) in gastric cancer after curative distal gastrectomy. The survival of 634 patients who underwent curative distal gastrectomy from 1995 to 2004 was retrieved."

"Long-term surgical outcomes and associations between the number of dissected LNs and the 5-year survival rate were investigated. The number of dissected LNs was one of the most important prognostic indicators. Among patients with comparable T category, the larger the number of dissected LNs was, the better the...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-10-04)

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