Liu, Kai
Feng, Fan
Chen, Xin-zu
Zhou, Xin-yi
Zhang, Jing-yu
Chen, Xiao-long
Zhang, Wei-han
Yang, Kun
Zhang, Bo
Zhang, Hong-wei
Zhou, Zong-guang
Hu, Jian-kun http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3398-7369
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81372344, 81301866)
Sichuan Province Youth Science and Technology Innovative Research Team (2015TD0009)
1.3.5 project for disciplines of excellence, West China Hospital, Sichuan University (ZY2017304)
Fund for Fostering Academic and Technical Leaders of Sichuan Province ([2016] 183-19)
Fund for Fostering Academic and Technical Leaders of Sichuan Province ([2017] 919)
Article History
Received: 8 September 2018
Accepted: 25 October 2018
First Online: 2 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was based on the information gathered from the database of the Surgical Gastric Cancer Patient Registry of West China Hospital (WCH-SGCPR) under registration number WCH-SGCPR-2017-06. The establishment of this database was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of West China Hospital. With respect to the gastric cancer database from two institutions, medical records were anonymized and de-identified before analysis, and informed consent of individual patients was waived because of the retrospective nature of the analysis. This retrospective study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee in both medical institutions.