BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The eighth TNM edition for gastric cancer was released in 2016 and included major revisions, especially of stage III. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of the new AJCC TNM classification in comparison with the 7th edition for stage III gastric cancer. METHODS Clinical and histopathological data on 1,496 patients operated on for stage III ...

Carcinoma of the esophagus is classified according to the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) TNM staging system. The 7th edition of the UICC TNM staging system was published in 2009. This is the first study to compare the prognostic value of the TNM 6th and 7th editions in patients with esophageal carcinoma treated with chemotherapy followed by surgery. Two hundred forty-three patien...

The paper lists several editions of Euclid’s Elements in the Early Modern Age, giving for each of them the axioms and postulates employed to ground elementary mathematics.

There has been considerable debate on the existence of trends in climate in the highlands of East Africa and hypotheses about their potential effect on the trends in malaria in the region. We apply a new robust trend test to mean temperature time series data from three editions of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit database (CRU TS) for several relevant locations. We find si...

This book has already acquired a reputation as a very sound and practical book on the diseases children, in its first two editions. The first edition only appeared in 1936, so that it is comparatively a new recruit to the field of pediatrics; its author however is not, and the book has the advantage of his long practical experience in the treatment of children, as well as his obvious ability to...

The American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) Journal of Clinical Apheresis (JCA) Special Issue Writing Committee is charged with reviewing, updating, and categorizing indications for the evidence-based use of therapeutic apheresis in human disease. Since the 2007 JCA Special Issue (Fourth Edition), the Committee has incorporated systematic review and evidence-based approaches in the grading and ca...

example, of the illustrations to the writings of the Elizabethan surgeon William Clowes, or to Italian editions of Matthioli's Herbal. But both these authors and their printers were aiming at the top end of the market, and it is one of the great merits of this book to have given us examples taken from the other end of the spectrum as well. This is, in short, a fascinating book, whose assembly o...

It has been fifteen years since the appearance of the Second Edition of this book. A lot has happened since then. The teaching reform movement has become a fact of life. Many of us have had occasion to rethink how and why we teach. Many of us have taken time to learn about the myriad of new (often OnLine) teaching devices that are available today. Among these are MOOCs (massive open online cour...

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