Macroscopic appearance of Type IV and giant Type III is a high risk for a poor prognosis in pathological stage II/III advanced gastric cancer with postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy

Figure 3 Survival curve of independent prognostic factors with regard to relapse free survival (left panel) and overall survival (right panel). A: Survival curve according to macroscopic features for the high-risk group and the average-risk group. Five-year survival is shown; B: Survival curve by age; C: Survival curve by sex; D: Survival curve by pathological stage according to the 13^th JGCA stage. JGCA: Japanese Gastric Cancer Association.