Predictive Factors for Lymph Node Metastasis and the Effect on Survival in Early Gastric Cancer Patients with Radical Gastric Resection

Objectives: Selected patients with early gastric cancer (GC) are treated endoscopically. Lymph node metastasis (LNM) in the T1 stage may also be detected during surgical resection for early GC. The aim of this study was to determine factors associated with LNM and the effect on survival