Frequency of lymph node metastasis according to tumor location in clinical T1 early gastric cancer: supplementary analysis of the Japan Clinical Oncology Group study (JCOG0912)

ConclusionsThis supplementary analysis demonstrated that nodal metastasis from early gastric cancer is widely and disorderly not depending on the location. Thus, systematic lymph node dissection is necessary to cure the early gastric cancer.
Source: Journal of Gastroenterology - Category: Gastroenterology Source Type: research