The prognosis role of AJCC/UICC 8th edition staging system in gastric cancer, a retrospective analysis.

The present study was designed to investigate whether AJCC/UICC 8th edition staging system precisely differentiated patients with different prognosis of gastric cancer (GC).There were 540 GC cases included in this study. Stratification was done according to the 7th and 8th AJCC/UICC tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging systems. Detailed comparison was conducted between two editions in terms of the sub-classification of pN3 stage, redefinitions of...