Equipping the 8th Edition American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging for Gastric Cancer with the 15-Node Minimum: a Population-Based Study Using Recursive Partitioning Analysis

Bakcground The recently proposed 8th American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging for gastric cancer (GC) did not include the evaluated lymph node (ELN) count as a prognostic indicator. In this study, we performed recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) to objectively combine the 15-ELN threshold...

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