Greater Lymph Node Retrieval Improves Survival in Node-Negative Resected Gastric Cancer in the United States.

In the United States, the majority of node-negative gastrectomies include suboptimal eLN. In node-negative gastric cancer, greater LN retrieval appears to have therapeutic and prognostic value, irrespective of initial treatment, suggesting a survival benefit to meticulous lymphadenectomy.