Prognostic value of the distance of proximal resection margin in patients who have undergone curative gastric cancer surgery

Table 2 Correlations with clinicopathological factors, recurrence, and locoregional recurrence in the patients who underwent curative total gastrectomy

Parameter	Recurrence		P value	Locoregional recurrence		P value
	Negative	Positive		Negative	Positive
Gender			0.592			<0.001
Male	95	44		29	15
Female	69	37		36	1
Age (years)			0.655			0.869
≤60	74	39		31	8
>60	90	42		34	8
T-stage			<0.001			0.917
T1	59	0		0	0
T2	62	16		13	3
T3	39	58		46	12
T4	4	7		6	1
N-stage			<0.001			0.013
N0	83	7		7	0
N1	42	14		7	7
N2	13	18		15	3
N3	26	42		36	6
Vascular invasion			<0.001			0.400
Absent	131	38		32	6
Present	33	43		33	10
Lymphatic invasion			<0.001			0.309
Absent	59	4		4	0
Present	105	77		61	16
Neural invasion			<0.001			0.844
Absent	65	6		5	1
Present	99	75		60	15
Histology			0.004			0.771
Differentiated	53	12		10	2
Undifferentiated	111	69		55	14
Lauren’s classification			0.006			0.021
Intestinal	45	8		6	2
Diffuse	81	53		47	6
Mixed	38	20		12	8
Proximal resection margin (cm)			0.032			0.910
≤2	37	31		25	6
2 - 4	51	22		17	5
≥4	76	28		23	5
Tumor size (cm)			<0.001			0.771
≤2	19	0		0	0
2 - 5	65	12		10	2
>5	80	69		55	14
Tumor location			<0.001			0.122
Lower third	7	7		4	3
Middle third	83	37		32	5
Upper third	64	19		13	6
Entire	10	18		16	2

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