Prognostic significance of tumour budding assessed in gastric carcinoma according to the criteria of the International Tumour Budding Consensus Conference.

Our data show that the ITBCC criteria can be applied to GC. The data correlated significantly with the diverse clinicopathological characteristics, including patient outcome, and can help to standardise diagnostics and research into special histological features of malignant tumours in general and GC in particular.