P15 Morbidity, mortality, and survival of patients with proximal gastric adenocarcinoma after proximal subtotal gastrectomy – A comparative study

The National Cancer Data Base report on

The National Cancer Data Base report on poor survival of U.S. gastric carcinoma patients treated with gastrectomy : Fifth edition American Joint Committee on Cancer staging, proximal disease, and the “different disease” hypothesis

✍ Scott A. Hundahl; Jerri Linn Phillips; Herman R. Menck 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 143 KB 👁 2 views

A high proportion of U.S. patients with gastric carcinoma do not receive surgical treatment. To sharpen staging criteria and facilitate comparisons with surgical series, an analysis of patients whose treatment included gastrectomy was undertaken. In addition, to evaluate the "different disease" hypo