title: Invited commentary: are the staging systems for lymphatic spread important in gastric cancer?
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Technische Universität München, Germany.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Siewert
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*