Gastric Carcinoma in Young Patients and Its Clinicopathological Characteristics and Prognosis

Table 4

TNM stages of the young patients with two subgroups.

	Characteristics	Young group		value
		Age ≤35 years	Age 35-40 years
T stage	T1	13	18	0.027
	T2	5	8
	T3	5	2
	T4	23	91
N stage	N0	10	34	0.061
	N1	3	18
	N2	3	27
	N3	30	40
TNM stage	IA	9	17	0.027
	IB	2	6
	IIA	2	10
	IIB	2	11
	IIIA	2	10
	IIIB	2	21
	IIIC	23	29
	IV	4	15
Positive lymph nodes	Number			0.443

DG: distal gastrectomy; TG: total gastrectomy; PG: proximal gastrectomy; U: upper; M: middle; L: lower; EGC: early gastric cancer.