Greater Lymph Node Retrieval Improves Survival in Node-Negative Resected Gastric Cancer in the United States.

Conclusions: In the United States, the majority of node-negative gastrectomies include suboptimal eLN. In node-negative gastric cancer, greater LN retrieval appears to have therapeutic and prognostic value, irrespective of initial treatment, suggesting a survival benefit to meticulous lymphadenectomy. PMID: 29302371 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29302371?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Gastric Cancer - January 7, 2018 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: J Gastric Cancer Source Type: research