Conditional survival of patients with gastric cancer who undergo curative resection: A multi-institutional analysis in China.

The current results indicate that CDS estimates for Chinese patients with gastric cancer who underwent surgery were dynamic and increased with time elapsed. Patients who had unfavorable tumor characteristics had the greatest improvement in CDS. This valuable information could provide more a precise evaluation of long-term prognosis and may serve as an important prognostic index in clinical practice. Cancer 2018;124:916-24. © 2017 American Cancer Society.