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Table 1 Patient characteristics and pathological findings

From: Prognostic impact of detecting viable circulating tumour cells in gastric cancer patients using a telomerase-specific viral agent: a prospective study

Parameters

Numbers of patients

Sex

 

Male

46

Female

19

Age (mean, range)

58.8, 33-76

Gastrectomy

 

Distal

29

Total

32

None

4

Surgical approach

 

Laparoscopy

54

Open laparotomy

11

Curability

 

R0

57

R1

0

R2

8

TNM Stage

 

I

40

II

6

III

10

IV

9

Tumour depth of invasion

 

T1

36

T2

8

T3

9

T4

12

Lymph node metastasis

 

N0

39

N1

5

N2

6

N3

15

Distant metastasis

 

M0

56

M1

9

Main histological type†

 

Differentiated

25

Undifferentiated

40

Lymphatic invasion

 

LX

4

L0

35

L1

26

Venous invasion

 

VX

4

V0

35

V1-2

26

  1. † Well or moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma and papillary adenocarcinoma were categorized as differentiated type. Signet-ring cell carcinoma, poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma and mucinous adenocarcinoma were categorized as undifferentiated type.
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