Recent trends from the results of clinical trials on gastric cancer surgery

Cancer Communications

Table 2 Results of the randomized clinical trials comparing the efficacy of gastrectomy with and without splenectomy

Author	Year	Number of patients	Country	Morbidity		Mortality		Survival difference
Author	Year	Number of patients	Country	Splenectomy (%)	Non-splenectomy (%)	Splenectomy (%)	Non-splenectomy (%)	Survival difference
Cuschieri et al. [7, 25]	1999	400	UK	54.0^a	28.0^a	16.0^a	4.0^a	NS
Csendes et al. [34]	2002	187	Chile	50.0^a	39.0^a	4.4	3.1	NS
Yu et al. [26]	2006	207	Korea	15.4	8.7	1.9	1.0	NS
Sano et al. [29]	2017	505	Japan	30.3^a	16.7^a	0.4	0.8	NS

NS, not significant
^aDemonstrated statistical significance between the respective comparative groups

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