Despite its decreasing incidence, gastric cancer remains an important global healthcare
problem due to its overall high prevalence and high mortality rate. Since the MAGIC and …

Background Nodal status is one of the most important prognostic factors in gastric
adenocarcinoma (GC). As such, it is important to assess an appropriate number of lymph …

Purpose The aim of this study was to combine clinicopathologic variables associated with
overall survival after gastric resection with D2 lymphadenectomy (D2 gastrectomy) for gastric …

Objectives: The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for gastric
cancer bases N status on absolute number of metastatic nodes, regardless of the number of …

BACKGROUND: Log odds of positive lymph nodes (LODDS) is defined as the log of the ratio
between the probability of being a positive lymph nodes and the probability of being a …

Background Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has emerged as a treatment of choice for early-
stage gastric cancer. However, applying MIS to gastric patients with high body mass index …

BACKGROUND: The seventh edition of the tumor, lymph node (LN), metastasis (TNM)
staging system increased the required number of examined LNs in gastric cancer from 15 to …

Objective: To compare the prognostic performance of American Joint Committee on
Cancer/International Union Against Cancer seventh N stage relative to lymph node ratio …

Background Previous studies indicate that N-ratio has significant superiority in minimizing
'stage migration'for patients with> 15 lymph nodes retrieved. Whether the result is applicable …

Introduction The incidence of gastric cancer (GC) arising in the upper third of the stomach,
including the cardia or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ), has increased in the last decades …