The New American Joint Committee on Cancer/International Union Against Cancer staging system for adenocarcinoma of the stomach: increased complexity without clear improvement in predictive accuracy.

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Published in Ann Surg Oncol on May 23, 2012

Authors

Johan L Dikken1, Cornelis J H van de Velde, Mithat Gönen, Marcel Verheij, Murray F Brennan, Daniel G Coit

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. jdikken@gmail.com

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