Impact of clinical tumor-node-metastasis staging on survival in gastric carcinoma patients receiving surgery.
Etsuro BandoRie MakuuchiMasanori TokunagaYutaka TanizawaTaiichi KawamuraMasanori TerashimaPublished in: Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (2016)
The seventh edition of the TNM clinical staging system has a strong prognostic ability with a satisfactory C-index and should be considered valuable for selecting therapeutic strategies for the treatment of gastric cancer.