Table 1.
Characteristics of included patients
| Total number | 1526 |
| Age (median, range) | 63 (22-95) |
| Sex | |
| Male | 1024 (67.8%) |
| Female | 502 (32.2%) |
| Location of lesion | |
| Upper | 251 (16.4%) |
| Middle | 309 (20.2%) |
| Lower | 935 (61.3%) |
| entire | 31 (2.0%) |
| pT stage | |
| T1 | 297 (19.5%) |
| T2 | 197 (12.9%) |
| T3 | 343 (22.5%) |
| T4a | 670 (43.9%) |
| T4b | 19 (1.2%) |
| LN number retrieved (mean ± SD) | 23.60 ± 10.59 |
| pN stage | |
| N0 | 554 (36.3%) |
| N1 | 242 (15.9%) |
| N2 | 273 (17.9%) |
| N3a | 312 (20.4%) |
| N3b | 145 (9.5%) |
| Surgical procedure | |
| Distal gastrectomy | 1109 (72.7%) |
| Proximal gastrectomy | 193 (12.6%) |
| Total gastrectomy | 224 (14.7%) |