Evaluating the Reporting Transparency and Interpretability of OLGA and OLGIM Staging in Gastric Cancer Risk Stratification
Jing Tian, Wenjie Xu, Shaofen Xu, Tingying Tang, Yimin Kang, Qiaoyu Peng, Fengbin Liu, Shaogang Huang, Xinlin Chen, Zhengkun Hou · 2026
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Jing Tian leads a team grading, in 2026, how clearly studies report two stomach staging systems used to flag cancer risk. The OLGA and OLGIM schemes grade stomach lining damage from biopsies, yet papers describe their methods unevenly. Three databases plus citation chasing yielded 155 studies that applied at least one scheme. Two reviewers scored each report on biopsy sampling detail and on how grades turned into stages.
Just under half of the studies read as highly interpretable, a similar share landed in the middle, and a small slice scored low. Stage numbers were common, but the steps behind them often went missing. Tian and the team stress that weak reporting, not proven weak method, blocks comparison across studies, and they urge fuller method sections.
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| CREATOR | Jing Tian, Wenjie Xu, Shaofen Xu, Tingying Tang, Yimin Kang, Qiaoyu Peng, Fengbin Liu, Shaogang Huang, Xinlin Chen, Zhengkun Hou |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39046 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |