Development and validation of the novel subclassification of pN3 for patients with esophageal cancer

BackgroundPatients with stage pN3 esophageal cancer (EC) have a large number of metastatic lymph nodes (mLNs) and have poor prognosis. This study was to elucidate whether subclassification of pN3 according to the number of mLNs could improve the discrimination ability of EC patients.MethodsThis stud...

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Main Authors: Keru Ma, Hao Wang, Chengyuan Fang, Xiangyu Jiang, Jianqun Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2023.1113711/full