Comparison Between Established and the Worldwide Esophageal Cancer Collaboration Staging Systems Puja Gaur, MD, Wayne L. Hofstetter, MD, B. Nebiyou Bekele, PhD, Arlene M. Correa, PhD, Reza J. Mehran, MD, David C. Rice, MD, Jack A. Roth, MD, Ara A. Vaporciyan, MD, Thomas W. Rice, MD, Stephen G. Swisher, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 89, Issue 6, Pages 1797-1804.e3 (June 2010) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.02.048 Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier curves using the different staging systems illustrate the Worldwide Esophageal Cancer Collaboration (WECC) staging system to be relatively superior in predicting survival of all patients with gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (A) as well as for the subgroup of patients who underwent surgical resection alone (B). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2010 89, 1797-1804.e3DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.02.048) Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions