Lower GI 2017

Median no of nodes

3 yr DFS

5 yr DFS

5 yr LR

Beresford et al ( 2005 )*

5

< 3 nodes: 26% > 3 nodes: 58%

Habr-gama et al ( 2007 )

8

no nodes: 74% ypN0: 59% ypN+: 30%

Rullier et al

13 (mean)

No relationship between no of nodes and

( 2008 )*

survival at any cut-off

Govindarajan et al ( 2011 ) De Campos-Lobato et al ( 2013 )

10

No relationship between no of nodes and DSS at any cut-off

15

<12 nodes: 77.1% >12 nodes: 75.2%

<12 nodes: 0% >12 nodes: 11%

Persiani et al ( 2014 )

7

No relationship between no of nodes and survival using any cut-off between 8 - 12

( * Node negative cases only )