ArticleCancer management and research2020
The Significance of Negative Lymph Nodes in Esophageal Cancer After Curative Resection: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
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- Prognostic value of the log odds of negative lymph nodes/T stage ratio (LONT) in postoperative esophageal cancer: a SEER-based study.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Optimal Range of Lymphadenectomy in Pathological Stage T1 and T2 Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Article
- The role of multiple metabolic genes in predicting the overall survival of colorectal cancer: A study based on TCGA and GEO databases.PloS one · 2021Article
- Negative lymph node count is an independent prognostic factor for female patients with node positive breast cancer.Translational cancer research · 2020Article
- The Number of Harvested LNs Is an Independent Prognostic Factor in Lymph Node Metastasis-negative Patients Who Received Curative Esophagectomy.In vivo (Athens, Greece)Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe impact of negative lymph nodes (NLNs) count on prognosis in esophageal cancer (EC) was analyzed using two institutions surgical database.
methodsWe conducted a retrospective study of 768 EC patients treated by surgical resection between January 2010 and December 2012. The effects of the NLNs count on prognosis was analyzed. Cox regression model was conducted to determine the significant prognostic elements.
resultsThe number of NLNs was studied as a categorical variable based on the quartiles (Q1: ≤15, Q2: 16-21, Q3: 22-30, Q4: ≥31). And a better overall survival (OS) was observed with increasing number of NLNs (HR= 0.762; 95% CI, 0.596-0.974 for Q2, HR= 0.666; 95% CI, 0.516-0.860 for Q3 and HR= 0.588; 95% CI, 0.450-0.768 for Q4) (all
conclusionA higher number of NLNs is independently related to the better OS in EC patients after surgical resection.
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