
Table
1.*The tumor-node-metastasis classification
of the Union International Contre le Cancer (UICC)
and The American Joint Committee on Cancer, 4th
Edition was used.1
+ The nodal stage of the Japanese Research Society
for Gastric Cancer, 1st English ed. Was used1,2
the abbreviation pT, pN denote pathologically
confirmed tumor-nodes.Because of rounding, not
all percent ages total 100.