Association of nutritional status-related indices and chemotherapy-induced adverse events in gastric cancer patients

Table 1 Characteristics of the patients

Characteristic	No (%) (n = 234)
Sex
Male	147 (62.8)
Female	87 (37.2)
Age (yr)
Median	55
Range	25–78
Tumor stage
T1^a)	4 (1.70)
T2a	56 (23.9)
T2b	118 (50.4)
T3	56 (23.9)
Nodal stage
N0^b)	17 (7.3)
N1	137 (58.5)
N2	80 (34.2)
Cancer stage, TNM^c) classification
II	123 (50.6)
III	120 (49.4)
Type of gastrectomy
Total	93 (39.7)
Distal	141 (60.3)

^a)T, the extent of the primary tumor; ^b)N, the absence or presence and extent of regional lymph node metastasis; ^c)The TNM system is an expression of the anatomic extent of disease and is based on the assessment of T, N, M. M-The absence or presence of distant metastasis

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