Clinical Study
Gastric Stump Cancer: More Than Just Another Proximal Gastric Cancer and Demanding a More Suitable TNM Staging System
Table 2
Univariate analysis of patients’ survival with GSC, PGC, and EGJC, after R0 resection.
| Parameters | GSC | PGC | EGJC |
| Gender | P = 0.960 | P = 0.340 | P = 0.189 | Macroscopy | P = 0.050 | P = 0.001 | P = 0.006 | Lymphatic vessels invasion | P = 0.176 | P = 0.001 | P = 0.069 | Venous invasion | P = 0.398 | P = 0.007 | P = 0.008 | Lauren classification | P = 0.006 | P = 0.002 | | Depth wall penetration (T stage) | P = 0.220 | P < 0.001 | P = 0.025 | Lymph node metastases (present versus absent) | P = 0.135 | P < 0.001 | P = 0.004 | Nodal metastases (N stage) | P = 0.496 | P < 0.001 | P = 0.002 | Nodal ratio (≤20% versus >20%) | P = 0.057 | P < 0.001 | P < 0.001 | AJCC stage grouped (I-II versus III-IV) | P = 0.489 | P < 0.001 | P = 0.004 |
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