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Table 2 The Basic clinicopathological characteristics of 348 gastric cancer patients

From: The New American Joint Committee on Cancer T staging system for stomach: increased complexity without clear improvement in predictive accuracy for endoscopic ultrasound

Characteristic

No. of patients (%)

Age (year)

 Mean ± SD

56.7 ± 10.8

 Median (P25, P75)

58.0 (50.0,65,0)

Gender

 Male

213 (61.2%)

 Female

135 (38.8%)

Longitudinal portions

 Antrum

183 (38.9%)

 Corpus

120 (25.5%)

 Gastroesophageal junction

63 (13.4%)

 Fundus

72 (15.2%)

 Gastric angulus

33 (7.0%)

Cross-sectional portions

 Circumferential lesions ≥1/2

120 (34.5%)

 Circumferential lesions, <  1/2

228 (65.5%)

 Ascites

30 (8.6%)

 Absence of ascites

318 (91.4%)

EUS type

 Radial scanning

309 (88.8%)

 Linear array

39 (11.2%)

Histological type

 Well-differentiated

39 (11.2%)

 Moderately differentiated

48 (13.8%)

 Poorly differentiated

165 (47.4%)

 Signet ring cell adenocarcinoma

96 (27.6%)

6th AJCC pathologic T category

 pT1

45 (13.0%)

 pT2

123 (35.3%)

 pT3

174 (50.0%)

 pT4

6 (1.7%)

7th/8th AJCC pathologic T category

 pT1

45 (13.0%)

 pT2

24 (6.9%)

 pT3

99 (28.4%)

 pT4

180 (51.7%)

  1. The total of numbers were more than 348 patients in longitudinal portions because some patients have two or more lesions; For histological type, a patient may have two, such as moderately and poorly differentiated types, the worse was for the final result
  2. SD standard deviation, AJCC American Joint Committee on Cancer, pT pathological T stage