Influence of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on gastric cancer: associations with diagnostic delays, clinicopathological features, and 3-year survival.

Although the overall difference in cStage distribution was not statistically significant using Pearson's chi-square test ( P =.179), the linear-by-linear association test—appropriate for ordinal variables—revealed a significant trend ( P =.027), indicating a shift toward more advanced cStages during the pandemic.

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