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Chih Yean Lum, Kuo-Hung Huang, Ming-Huang Chen, Wen-Liang Fang, Yee Chao, Su-Shun Lo, Anna Fen-Yau Li, Chew-Wun Wu, Yi-Ming Shyr |
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Journal of the Chinese Medical Association; Aug2020, Vol. 83 Issue 8, p751-755, 5p |
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Background: Lymph node (LN) metastasis is one of the independent prognostic factors of gastric cancer (GC). The difference in survival rates and initial recurrence patterns in patients with node-positive GC with retrieved LN numbers greater than or less than 16 is worthy of further study. Methods: A total of 1314 patients with node-positive GC were enrolled. The clinicopathological characteristics, retrieved LN numbers, adjuvant chemotherapy, initial recurrence patterns, and survival differences between serosa-negative and serosa-positive GC were investigated. Results: For serosa-negative GC, patients with retrieved LN numbers ≥16 were associated with fewer tumor recurrences, locoregional recurrences, distant metastases, and better 5-year overall survival (OS) rates and disease-free survival (DFS) rates. For serosa-positive GC, patients with retrieved LN numbers ≥16 were associated with similar locoregional and distant metastasis and similar 5-year OS and DFS rates compared with those with retrieved LN numbers <16. Retrieved LN numbers fewer than 16 can cause stage migration compared with retrieved LN numbers ≥16. Multivariate analysis showed that both the retrieved LN numbers (≥ or <16) and adjuvant chemotherapy were independent prognostic factors affecting OS in serosa-negative GC, while adjuvant chemotherapy but not the retrieved LN numbers was an independent prognostic factor of OS in serosa-positive GC. Conclusion: For serosa-negative GC, retrieved LN numbers fewer than 16 can cause stage migration, a higher tumor recurrence rate and worse OS and DFS rates compared with patients with retrieved LN numbers ≥16. Due to a high tumor recurrence rate in serosapositive GC, adjuvant chemotherapy rather than retrieved LN numbers played an important role in improving patient prognosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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