The relationship between examined lymph nodes and oncological outcome of proximal gastrectomy for Siewert II/III adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction
Haikuo Wang, Xinxin Shao, Yiming Lu, Haitao Hu, Yujuan Jiang, Wangyao Li, Quan Xu, Yantao Tian · 2025
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Haikuo Wang and co-authors test whether the count of lymph nodes examined after stomach surgery predicts survival in cancers of the stomach-esophagus junction. Their 2025 study covers 242 patients at China's national cancer center who had the upper stomach removed between 2017 and 2021. Node clearing followed lighter rules for early disease and full rules for advanced.
Two thirds of the patients fell short of the thirty-node textbook mark, and their survival ran clearly worse on both overall and recurrence-free counts. Node-positive status and serious complications stood out as independent harms in adjusted models. A curve analysis traced how risk moves with each added node. The authors read the count as both a quality mark and a prognosis sign.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Haikuo Wang, Xinxin Shao, Yiming Lu, Haitao Hu, Yujuan Jiang, Wangyao Li, Quan Xu, Yantao Tian |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |