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. 2019 Dec 16;25(6):390–396. doi: 10.4103/sjg.SJG_56_19

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Distribution of pancreatic cancer by clinical stage is depicted in the case group and in the National Cancer Database of the United States (1992–1998) classified according to theCancer Staging Manual, 6th edition (AJCC6, 2002), 8th edition (AJCC8, 2016) by the American Joint Committee on Cancer and the 7th edition of theGeneral Rules for the Study of Pancreatic Cancerby the Japan Pancreas Society (JPS2016, 2016). The clinical stage of pancreatic cancer was lower in the case group than in the reported national statistics, which means that pancreatic cancers in the patients with hepatocellular carcinoma were detected at an early stage