Table 4.

Subgroup analysis of patients with AEG stratified by the seventh AJCC TNM classification for cancersof the stomach

AJCC stomach	Subsets	n	5-year survival	P value between subsets	P value between stages
IA	pT1aN0M0	6	100%	0.386
	pT1bN0M0	8	75%
					0.428
IB	pT2N0M0	24	75.3%	/
					0.04
IIA	pT3N0M0	41	50.9%	0.712
	pT2N1M0	6	60%
					0.376
	pT4aN0M0	7	40%
IIB	pT3N1M0	40	42.8%	0.45
	pT2N2M0	6	26.7%
					0.086
IIIA	pT4aN1M0	9	51.9%	0.382
	pT3N2M0	57	30%
					0.087
	pT4bN0M0	1	0
	pT4bN1M0	1	0
IIIB	pT4aN2M0	13	16.5%	0.6
	pT3N3aM0	31	20%
	pT3N3bM0	3	0
					0.027
IIIC	pT4aN3aM0	18	13%
	pT4aN3bM0	3	0
	pT4bN2M0	2	0	<0.001
	pT4bN3aM0	2	50%
	pT4bN3bM0	3	0
					0.928
IV	anyTanyNM1	10	10	/