Survival according to T category and the number of positive nodes for patients undergoing resection of exocrine pancreatic cancer, stratified according to the revised AJCC 8th edition TNM staging criteria
(A) Overall survival by T stage of 525 patients who underwent resection for node-negative pancreatic cancer, stratified by proposed AJCC 8th edition criteria (training set only).
(B) Overall survival by number of positive nodes for all patients who underwent a R0 resection (training set, n = 1551), stratified by proposed AJCC 8th edition criteria.
From: Allen PJ, Kuk D, Castillo CF, et al. Multi-institutional Validation Study of the American Joint Commission on Cancer (8th Edition) Changes for T and N Staging in Patients with Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. Ann Surg 2017; 265:185. DOI:
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