Risk Factors of Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Early Pure and Mixed Signet Ring Cell Gastric Carcinomas

Conclusions: Although with similar post-resection survival, the independent risk factors of LNM in the early mSRCC group, compared to those in the early pSRCC group, included large tumor size and LVI. Early gastric mSRCC had more aggressive clinicopathological features than pSRCC.

Source: Journal of Cancer - June 13, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Qingqing Hu, Raymond Dekusaah, Shouli Cao, Taohong Pang, Yi Wang, Bin Zhang, Ying Lv, Xiaoqi Zhang, Tingsheng Ling, Yuzheng Zhuge, Lei Wang, Xiaoping Zou, Weijie Zhang, Qin Huang, Guifang Xu Tags: Research Paper Source Type: research