Evaluating the effect of tumor size on survival and its prognostic significance among gastric cancer patients
- 1 November 2020
- journal article
- Published by Digital ProScholar Media in Journal of Clinical and Investigative Surgery
- Vol. 5 (2), 76-82
- https://doi.org/10.25083/2559.5555/5.2/76.82
Abstract
Purpose. This study investigates the prognostic significance of tumor size and its effect on survival among patients undergoing gastrectomy and D2 lymph node dissection due to gastric cancer. Materials and Methods. The clinicopathological characteristics of 320 patients who were operated due to gastric cancer between November 2006 and September 2019 were assessed retrospectively, of which 271 were included in the present study. A receiver-operating characteristic curve (ROC) analysis was carried out to identify the tumor size cut-off value. Patients were divided into small-size and large-size tumor groups. Clinicopathological characteristics were assessed using Chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests, while survival was assessed with a Kaplan-Meier log-rank test. Results. The cut-off gastric cancer tumor size value was calculated as 4.75 cm. A statistical difference was noted in the tumor depth of wall invasion (p<0.001), the number of positive lymph nodes removed (p<0.001), vascular invasion (p=0.001) and perineural invasion (p=0.001) of the two groups. Survival was poorer in patients with large-size tumors than in those with small-size tumors (62 months vs. 88 months, respectively; p<0.001), and tumor size was associated with wall invasion depth (p<0.001) and Borrmann’s classification (p=0.002). A univariate analysis revealed tumor size to be a prognostic factor for survival (p=0.001), while no such finding could be established in a multivariate analysis (p=0.637). Conclusion. Tumor size is a prognostic marker for gastric cancer, and a preoperative assessment in this regard may suggest neoadjuvant therapy.Keywords
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