A prospective multi-institutional validity study to evaluate the accuracy of clinical diagnosis of pathological stage III gastric cancer (JCOG1302A)

ConclusionClinical diagnosis of T3/T4 tumors was not an optimal criterion to select patients for intensive NAC trials because more than 10% of patients with pathological stage  I disease were included. We propose the criterion “cT3/T4 and cN1/N2/N3” instead.
Source: Gastric Cancer - Category: Gastroenterology Source Type: research