Keisuke Komori, Kazuki Kano, Shuji Ando, Hayato Watanabe, Kosuke Takahashi, Yukio Maezawa, Hirohito Fujikawa, Sho Sawazaki, Masakatsu Numata, Toru Aoyama, Takanobu Yamada, Hiroshi Tamagawa, Norio Yukawa, Yasushi Rino, Takashi Ogata, Takashi Oshima
BACKGROUND/AIM: Mucinous gastric carcinoma (MGC) has a poor prognosis. Due to the differences in clinicopathology factors between MGC and non-MGC (NMGC), it is difficult to compare them. In this study, we compared the clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of MGC and NMGC patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: For gastric carcinoma (GC), 3,042 gastrectomy patients were included in the study and divided into the MGC (n=86) and NMGC (n=2,956) groups. The characteristics and prognoses of patients in both groups were compared before and after (both groups, n=86) propensity score matching...
June 2023: Anticancer Research