Table 1.

Short-term results of gastric cancer surgery with D2 lymphadenectomy in Eastern Asia vs Europe, in clinical trials vs observational studies[16]

	Post-operative mortality	Post-operative morbidity	Median nodes retrieved	Adequate staging (≥ 15 nodes)
Eastern Asia
Trials	0%-0.8%	17%-21%	54	100%
Observational	< 2%	-	-	-
Europe
Trials	5%-14%	43%-46%	17	-
Observational	2%-5%	21%-35%	25-26	86%-95%
IRGGC (VR, SI, PD)	3.6%	33.6%	29 (IQ 21-38)	93.8%

IRGGC: Italian Research Group for Gastric Cancer.