Table 2.

Tendency of node metastasis for clinical and pathologic T stage

	Pathologic node negative	Pathological node positive	p value
Clinical early gastric cancer (cT1)			0.007
Younger group	146 (78.9)	39 (21.1)
Older group	1780 (86.2)	284 (13.8)
Clinical advanced gastric cancer (≥cT2)			0.025
Younger group	52 (34.2)	100 (65.8)
Older group	869 (43.6)	1126 (56.4)
Pathologic early gastric cancer (pT1)			0.011
Younger group	173 (82.0)	38 (18.0)
Older group	2149 (88.0)	293 (12.0)
Pathologic advanced gastric cancer (≥pT2)			0.001
Younger group	25 (19.8)	101 (80.2)
Older group	500 (30.9)	1117 (69.1)