The Significant Influence of the Neuroendocrine Component on the Survival of Patients with Gastric Carcinoma Characterized by Coexisting Exocrine and Neuroendocrine Components

Figure 4

Overall survival of the patients in the GAC group with a NE component regrouped according to the pN stage. A statistically significant difference in survival was observed between patients with less metastatic lymph nodes (pN0, pN1, and pN2) and those with the number of metastatic lymph nodes exceeding 6 (pN3) (p<0.001). There was no significant difference in the predictors of survival among pN0, pN1, and pN2 (p=0.964) (the figure is not shown) (Kaplan–Meier and log-rank test).

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