Low Frequency of Lymph Node Metastases in Patients in the United States With Early-stage Gastric Cancers That Fulfill Japanese Endoscopic Resection Criteria

In the West, early gastric cancer is increasingly managed with endoscopic resection (ER). This is, however, based on the assumption that the low prevalence and risk of lymph node metastases observed in Asian patients is applicable to patients in the United States. We sought to evaluate the frequency of and factors associated with metastasis of early gastric cancers to lymph nodes, and whether the Japanese ER criteria are applicable to patients in the US.

Source: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology - November 21, 2018 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Yuri Hanada, Alyssa Y. Choi, Joo Ha Hwang, Peter V. Draganov, Lauren Khanna, Amrita Sethi, Michael J. Bartel, Neha Goel, Seiichiro Abe, Rabia A. De Latour, Kenneth Park, Marcovalerio Melis, Elliot Newman, Ioannis Hatzaras, Sanjay S. Reddy, Jeffrey M. Farm Source Type: research