Table 1.

Clinical and pathological features of DGC samples

	N0 DGC	N3 DGC
Sex (male/female)	5/5	9/4
Age (mean ± S.D.)	51.8 ± 13.8	53.30 ± 12.4
Gross (Borrmann) type (2/3/4)	0/8/2	0/6/7
Tumor Size (cm) (mean ± S.D.)	4.97 ± 2.1	9.43 ± 4.6
Tumor location (cardia/body/antrum)	2/4/4	0/6/7
T Stage (T2/T3/T4)	1/6/3	0/4/9
N stage
(No. of metastatic lymph nodes(mean ± S.D.))	N0 (0 ± 0)	N3 (22.30 ± 14.52)
M Stage (M0/M1)	10/0	9/4