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Table 5 Assessment of the patients’ quality of life before and after surgery

From: Laparoscopic versus open surgery for locally advanced and metastatic gastric cancer complicated with bleeding and/or stenosis: short- and long-term outcomes

Variable

Laparoscopic surgery (n = 52)

Open surgery (n = 75)

Prior surgery

After surgery

Prior surgery

After surgery

Karnofsky–100%/ECOG–0

11 (21.1%)

30 (57.7%)

18 (24%)

32 (42.7%)

Karnofsky–90%/ECOG–1

32 (61.5%)

19 (36.5%)

43 (57.3%)

31 (41.3%)

Karnofsky–80%/ECOG–2

9 (17.4)

3 (5.8%)

14 (18.7%)

12 (16%)