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Comparison of performances of different staging systems in patients with <16 harvested lymph nodes
| System | AUC (c-index) | AIC | Linear trend χ2 |
| AUC, area under the curve; AIC, Akaike information criterion; LODDS, log odds of positive lymph nodes; UICC, Union for International Cancer Control; MLR, metastatic lymph node ratio. | |||
| LODDS | 0.711 | 471.976 | 9.437 |
| 7th UICC N-stage | 0.708 | 469.477 | 13.188 |
| 8th UICC N-stage | 0.708 | 469.477 | 13.188 |
| MLR | 0.663 | 477.084 | 8.928 |
