A theoretical model for assessing the relationship between "stage migration" and survival of gastric cancer patients after variable lymph node dissection

Nered, S.N.; Klimenkov, A.A.

Voprosy Onkologii 52(1): 38-41

2006


ISSN/ISBN: 0507-3758
PMID: 16715701
Document Number: 600672
Standard histological procedures identify metastatic gastric cancer in approximately 15% of cases of macroscopically unaltered lymph nodes. Such metastases evade detection after surgery due to inadequate lymph node dissection, thus increasing staging error. Consequently, about 15% of patients suffer from tumor which is actually more advanced than one diagnosed originally.

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