High lymph-node yield improves the prognostic value of esophageal cancer staging
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The current International Union Against Cancer tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) classification system recommends that only six nodes need to be sampled in order to determine the nodal status of patients with esophageal carcinoma. Bogoevski et al. have found that in patients with carcinoma of the esophagus who have undergone curative resection, the otherwise poor prognostic value of lymph-node staging is improved when a high number of nodes are sampled or if the ratio of positive nodes to sampled nodes is low.
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