ArticleJournal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract2015
Usefulness of the log odds of positive lymph nodes to predict and discriminate prognosis in gastric carcinomas.
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- Development and validation of a novel staging system integrating the number and location of lymph nodes for gastric adenocarcinoma.British journal of cancer · 2021Article
- Superiority of log odds of positive lymph nodes (LODDS) for prognostic prediction after gastric cancer surgery: a multi-institutional analysis of 7620 patients in China.Surgery today · 2021Article
- The extent of aortic lymphadenectomy in locally advanced cervical cancer impacts on survival.Journal of gynecologic oncology · 2021Article
- A Nomogram Based on the Log Odds of Positive Lymph Nodes Predicts the Prognosis of Patients With Distal Cholangiocarcinoma After Surgery.Frontiers in surgery · 2021Article
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- Log odds of positive lymph nodes is prognostically equivalent to lymph node ratio in non-metastatic colon cancer.BMC cancer · 2020Article
- Comparison of different lymph node staging schemes in prostate cancer patients with lymph node metastasis.International urology and nephrology · 2020Article
- Comparison of the 8th union for international cancer control lymph node staging system for gastric cancer with two other lymph node staging systems.Oncology letters · 2019Article
- Lymph node staging systems in patients with gastric cancer treated with D2 resection plus adjuvant chemotherapy.Journal of Cancer · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe lymph node ratio (LNR) and log odds of positive lymph nodes (LODDS) have been proposed to minimize the stage migration phenomenon. The value of the LODDS and LNR staging systems to predict and discriminate prognosis was assessed and compared to the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) TNM classification (pN).
methodsThree hundred and twenty-six patients with gastric carcinoma were retrospectively studied. Disease-specific survival rates were calculated for every pN, LNR, and LODDS category.
resultsFour LNR categories (0, 1-25, 26-75, and >76 %) and four LODDS categories (-5 to -3, > -3 to -1, > -1 to 3, and >3 to 5) were established. In the multivariate analysis, only the stage pT3-4 versus pT1-2 (HR 1.88, 95 % CI 1.11-3.20, p=0.02) and LODDS as continuous variable (HR 1.40, 95 % CI 1.21-1.61, p<0.001) remained as independent prognostic factors. In patients with <16 lymph nodes retrieved, only the LODDS system could discriminate different disease-specific survival curves for every category. LODDS categories were able to discriminate subgroups with different prognoses in pN stages and LNR categories.
conclusionsThe LODDS staging system was superior to the pN classification and LNR system to discriminate risk prognosis especially in patients with an insufficient number of retrieved lymph nodes.
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