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ReviewPrzeglad gastroenterologiczny2016

Alternative staging of regional lymph nodes in gastric cancer.

Antoni M Szczepanik, Agata Paszko, Miroslaw Szura, Thecla Scully-Horner, Jan Kulig

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Review in Przeglad gastroenterologiczny, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Antoni M Szczepanik1 Department of General, Gastrointestinal, and Oncologic Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
Agata Paszko1 Department of General, Gastrointestinal, and Oncologic Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
Miroslaw Szura1 Department of General, Gastrointestinal, and Oncologic Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
Thecla Scully-HornerIntensive Care Unit, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
Jan Kulig1 Department of General, Gastrointestinal, and Oncologic Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The TNM pN stage based on the number of metastatic lymph nodes is an independent prognostic factor in gastric cancer. Many studies have highlighted the phenomenon of stage migration and problems in comparing groups of patients with different numbers of total lymph nodes harvested within TNM staging. The current version of UICC/AJCC and JGCA TNM classifications postulates a minimal number of 16 lymph nodes as the base for N stage determination. Alternative systems such as lymph node ratio (LNR), positive to negative lymph node ratio (PNLNR), and LOGODDS (or LODDS), were implemented to increase the quality of LN assessment. These methods have reached the background in the literature, but to date no standard approach according to the cut-offs for the stages has been implemented. LOGODDS is the method that most reflects the number of harvested lymph nodes. The rationale for alternative staging methods, their correlations, and limitations are presented.

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gastric cancerlymphadenectomylymph node staging

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PMID27713774
PMCPMC5047974

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