“…Lymph node stations are classified according to Japanese criteria 17 In this study, long-term survival was mostly limited to the patients with fewer than 7 metastatic nodes, and the independent prognostic value of nodal involvement was demonstrated in the multivariate analysis. Similar to these results, the involvement of second-tier lymph nodes [6,10,23] and the presence of more than 6 metastatic nodes [18,19,21] have already been reported as negative prognostic factors in GEJ adenocarcinoma. Although age less than 65 years was identified as a significant positive prognostic factor, the depth of invasion (pT) was not an independent determinant of survival, as shown in Table 2, which is supported by other report [19].…”