A new prognostic strategy for gastric carcinoma: albumin level and metastatic lymph node ratio.

Aim: We evaluated the prognostic significance of preoperative serum albumin value and metastatic lymph node ratio for gastric cancer patients.

Methods: We studied patients diagnosed with gastric carcinoma in the first Department of Surgery, Bezmialem Vakif Gureba Training and Research Hospital between January 2004 and December 2010; the patients were studied retrospectively.

Results: A total of 67 patients with a mean age of 58.