Evaluation of the Eighth Edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer TNM Staging System for Gastric Cancer: An Analysis of 7371 Patients in the SEER Database.
Long-Long CaoJun LuPing LiJian-Wei XieJia-Bin WangJian-Xian LinQi-Yue ChenMi LinRu-Hong TuChao-Hui ZhengChang-Ming HuangPublished in: Gastroenterology research and practice (2019)
The 8th edition of the AJCC TNM staging system is superior to the 7th edition for predicting the DSS rates of gastric cancer patients. However, for better prognostic stratification, it might be more suitable for T4aN3bM0/T4bN3bM0 to be incorporated into stage IV in the 8th edition TNM staging system.