Comparison of a lymph node ratio-based staging system with the 7th AJCC system for gastric cancer: analysis of 18,043 patients from the SEER database

Annals of Surgery
Jiping WangSam S Yoon

Abstract

The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for gastric cancer bases N status on absolute number of metastatic nodes, regardless of the number of examined nodes. We examined a modified staging system utilizing node ratio (Nr), the ratio of metastatic to examined nodes. A total of 18,043 gastric cancer patients who underwent gastrectomy were identified from the US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. A training set was divided into 5 Nr groups, and a TNrM staging system was constructed. Median survival and overall survival, based on 7th edition AJCC and TNrM staging systems, were compared, and the analysis was repeated in a validation set. Median examined nodes were 10 to 11. For the training set, overall survival for all 5 AJCC N categories was significantly different when subgrouped into 15 or fewer versus more than 15 examined nodes, but overall survival was similar regardless of the number of examined nodes in 4 of 5 Nr categories. Seven AJCC stages had statistically different overall survival between subgroups, whereas only 1 TNrM stage had statistically different overall survival between subgroups. When misclassification was defined as any subgroup in which median survival fell outs...Continue Reading

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