Extended Lymph Node Dissection in Gastric Cancer: If a Benefit Exists, Can It Ever Be Proven?

Prognostic factors for patients with nod

Prognostic factors for patients with node-negative gastric cancer: Can extended lymph node dissection have a survival benefit?

✍ Sung-Soo Park; Joong-Min Park; Jong-Han Kim; Wan-Bae Kim; Juneyoung Lee; Seung-J 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 124 KB

## Background and objectives: For the patients with node-negative gastric cancer, there is no agreement on which clinicopathological factors influence the final results except t stage. the aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic factors, and to reveal whether the extent of lymph node di