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GASTRIC CANCER
Volume 21, Issue 6, Pages 977-987Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-018-0830-1
Keywords
Stomach cancer; Tumor staging; TNM staging; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; Chinese population
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- Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission [Z151100004015070, D141100000414002, D141100000414004]
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Background This study aims to evaluate the new ypTNM staging system in Chinese gastric cancer patients. Methods We conducted retrospective survival and regression analyses using a database of gastric cancer patients who underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy at the Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute from January 2007 to January 2015. Results A total of 473 patients were included in the study with 28 pathological complete response (pCR) cases, 3 ypT0N1 cases, 65 stage I cases, 126 stage II cases, and 251 stage III cases. The pCR cases had similar survival to stage I patients (p> 0.05). The 3-year disease-free survival (DFS) and 5-year overall survival (OS) rates of stage I, II and III patients were significantly different (3-year DFS: 89.0, 75.5, and 39.6%, p<0.001; 5-year OS: 89.6, 65.5, and 36.5%, p = 0.001). Both ypT and ypN are independent predictors of patient survival, while further log-rank tests showed that the ypN stage is of better prognostic value than ypT. Subgrouping analysis revealed that stage III patients of ypT4b and ypN3 had worse survival compared to the rest of stage III cases (p < 0.001). The c-index values of the ypTNM stage and modified ypTNM stage (stage III divided into IIIa and IIIb) were 0.657 and 0.708, respectively (p <0.001). Conclusions Our data showed significant differences in survival among gastric cancer patients at different ypTNM stages, indicating its prognostic value in the Chinese population. Further detailed analyses may facilitate the subgrouping of each stage to allow for a more accurate evaluation of disease prognosis in gastric cancer patients.
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