Objective: Determine the prognostic significance of metastatic lymph node ratio in 5-year survival of patients after curative distal gastrectomy for advanced gastric carcinoma.
Materials And Methods: This study survival analysis, prospective, observational, longitudinal, analyzed data from 68 patients with resectable advanced gastric adenocarcinoma treated at the Regional Institute of Neoplastic Disease Luis Pinillos Ganoza during the period 2008-2013.
Results: The number of metastatic lymph nodes ranged from 0-29 (mean, 3.