Surgical procedure determination based on tumor-node-metastasis staging of gallbladder cancer

Table 3 Patient numbers of various treatments in each tumor-node-metastasis staging group n (%)

TNM stage	Case	Simple cholecystectomy	Radical cholecystectomy	Palliative resection	Inoperable	P value1
0 + I	18 (11.84)	12 (66.67)	6 (33.33)	0	0	0.826
II	25 (16.45)	16 (64.00)	9 (26.00)	0	0	0.114
IIIA	21 (13.82)	0	12 (57.14)	9 (42.86)	0	0.034
IIIB	21 (13.82)	0	11 (52.38)	10 (47.62)	0	0.701
IVA	24 (15.79)	0	19 (79.17)	2 (8.33)	3 (12.50)	0.6862
IVB	43 (28.29)	0	0	7 (16.28)	36 (83.72)	0.001
Total	152	28 (18.54)	57 (37.50)	28 (18.42)	39 (25.66)

¹The P value refers to comparisons of survival times between patients with different surgical procedures in the same TNM stage;

²Palliative resection and non-surgical treatment were combined to compare with radical cholecystectomy. TNM: Tumor-node-metastasis.