Nomogram-Based Prognostic Evaluation of Gastric Cancer Patients with Low Counts of Examined Lymph Nodes Outperforms the Predictive Ability of the 7 th and 8 th Editions of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging System.
Marek SierzegaLukasz BobrzynskiPiotr KolodziejczykGrzegorz WallnerJan KuligAntoni Szczepaniknull nullM SierzegaL BobrzynskiP KolodziejczykG WallnerJ KuligA SzczepanikJ DadanM DrewsM FraczekA JeziorskiM KrawczykT StarzynskaP RichterPublished in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2022)
A clinically relevant nomogram was built for the prediction of 5-year survival in patients with inadequate numbers of LNs evaluated in surgical specimens. The predictive accuracy of the nomogram was validated in two Western populations.