Table 13 Lymph node metastasis (resected cases)
From: Gastric cancer treated in 2002 in Japan: 2009 annual report of the JGCA nationwide registry
categories | No. of patients | Direct death | Lost f.u. | 1 yearr (%) | 2 years (%) | 3 years (%) | 4 years (%) | 5 years (%) | SE at 5 years | Alive | Local rec. | Peritoneal | Liver rec. | Distant meta. | R | Other cancer | Other disease | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pN0 | 7603 | 20 | 1482 | 97.6 | 95.3 | 92.9 | 90.9 | 88.9 | 0.4 | 5350 | 29 | 132 | 52 | 21 | 34 | 107 | 303 | 93 |
pN1 | 2619 | 17 | 374 | 86.3 | 73.9 | 66.6 | 61.4 | 58.9 | 1.0 | 1240 | 115 | 402 | 124 | 59 | 81 | 28 | 124 | 72 |
pN2 | 2032 | 15 | 246 | 76.4 | 56.0 | 44.5 | 38.1 | 34.6 | 1.1 | 547 | 172 | 542 | 132 | 88 | 114 | 15 | 79 | 97 |
pN3 | 522 | 9 | 41 | 54.9 | 30.1 | 20.3 | 16.5 | 14.3 | 1.6 | 61 | 86 | 158 | 36 | 43 | 41 | 3 | 22 | 31 |