Research Article
Gastric Carcinoma in Young Patients and Its Clinicopathological Characteristics and Prognosis
Table 2
TNM stages of the young, middle, and old age group patients.
| | Characteristics | Young group
(11.96%) | Middle group
(51.92%) | Old group
(36.11%) | value |
| | T stage | T1 | 33 (20.0) | 124 (17.3) | 69 (13.9) | 0.049 | | T2 | 16 (9.7) | 81 (11.3) | 52 (10.4) | | T3 | 6 (3.6) | 12 (1.7) | 13 (2.6) | | T4 | 110 (66.7) | 499 (69.7) | 364 (73.1) |
| | N stage | N0 | 48 (29.1) | 228 (31.8) | 160 (32.1) | 0.453 | | N1 | 24 (14.5) | 124 (17.3) | 95 (19.1) | | N2 | 33 (20.0) | 121 (16.9) | 96 (19.3) | | N3 | 60 (36.4) | 243 (33.9) | 147 (29.5) |
| | TNM stage | IA | 25 (15.2) | 93 (13.0) | 61 (12.2) | 0.327 | | IB | 9 (5.5) | 58 (8.1) | 28 (5.6) | | IIA | 11 (6.7) | 24 (3.4) | 24 (4.8) | | IIB | 17 (10.3) | 103 (14.4) | 75 (15.1) | | IIIA | 14 (8.5) | 88 (12.3) | 69 (13.9) | | IIIB | 27 (16.4) | 103 (14.4) | 69 (13.9) | | IIIC | 40 (24.2) | 172 (24.0) | 109 (21.9) | | IV | 22 (13.3) | 75 (10.5) | 63 (12.7) |
| | Positive lymph nodes | Number | | | | 0.215 |
| | Harvested lymph nodes | Number | | | | 0.028 |
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DG: distal gastrectomy; TG: total gastrectomy; PG: proximal gastrectomy; U: upper; M: middle; L: lower; EGC: early gastric cancer.
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