Evaluating the prognostic significance of lymph node yield in resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma: a population-based study
Chia-Jen Tsai, Pei-Yi Lin, Khaa-Hoo Ong, Chung-Han Ho, Yi-Chen Chen, Chien-Feng Li, Ching-Chieh Yang, Chih-Ying Lu · 2026
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Description
Chia-Jen Tsai, with seven colleagues, published a 2026 study of lymph node counts in pancreatic cancer surgery. Guidelines urge surgeons to take at least fifteen nodes. That count aids staging, yet its survival value was unsure. Taiwan registry and insurance data held 885 patients. All had curative surgery between 2013 and 2019. The team modeled survival with checks for bias.
The median node count was fifteen. Just over half the patients met the guideline count. In the whole group, survival at one and three years did not differ by count. One subgroup did gain: patients with head tumors of set stages who had the standard Whipple operation. They lived longer with higher counts. The team qualifies the guideline by tumor site and operation type.
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| CREATOR | Chia-Jen Tsai, Pei-Yi Lin, Khaa-Hoo Ong, Chung-Han Ho, Yi-Chen Chen, Chien-Feng Li, Ching-Chieh Yang, Chih-Ying Lu |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31727 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |