Table 1.

Demographic data and clinical and pathological characteristics of patients

Characteristics		Number of cases
Sex	Male	153
	Female	71
Age (years old)	≤ 60	114
	> 60	110
Tumor number	Single	208
	Multitude	16
Location of tumor	U (upper third stomach)	9
	M (middle third stomach)	41
	L (lower third stomach)	174
Maximum tumor diameter (cm)	≤ 2	28
	2–4	85
	> 4	111
pT category	pT1	34
	pT2	128
	pT3	59
	pT4	3
Histological type	G1 (well differentiated)	41
	G2 (moderately differentiated)	46
	G3 (poor differentiated)	137
Histological growth pattern
	Expanding type	115
	Infiltrative type	109
Lymphatic vessel infiltrate	Present	59
	Absent	165
pN category	pN0	55
	pN1	87
	pN2	49
	pN3	33
Metastatic node ratio (%)	0	55
	1–19	72
	20–39	30
	40–59	26
	60–79	20
	80–100	21