Increasing the Number of Examined Lymph Nodes is a Prerequisite for Improvement in the Accurate Evaluation of Overall Survival of Node-Negative Gastric Cancer Patients

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• 作者：Jingyu Deng ; Hiroharu Yamashita ; Yasuyuki Seto ; Han Liang
• 刊名：Annals of Surgical Oncology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：24
• 期：3
• 页码：745-753
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• 刊物主题：Surgical Oncology; Oncology; Surgery;
• 出版者：Springer International Publishing
• ISSN：1534-4681
• 卷排序：24

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BackgroundThis study aims to elucidate whether increasing the number of examined lymph nodes (NELN) is mandatory for the accurate prognosis of node-negative gastric cancer (GC) patients after curative gastrectomy in Eastern countries (China and Japan).