Evaluating the eighth edition TNM staging system for esophageal cancer among patients receiving neoadjuvant therapy: A SEER study.

Cancer Med · 2020 · PMC7333840 · PMID 32391623

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did not reach statistical significanceP = .098so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

We calculated the C ‐index to quantify the prognostic power of the seventh edition TNM grouping (0.575; 95%CI, 0.558‐0.593) and the eighth edition ypTNM grouping (0.569; 95%CI, 0.551‐0.587), and the difference did not reach statistical significance ( P = .098). 3.2 Survival analysis We further investigated the prognostic value of T, N, grade, and location categories, respectively.

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