Number of patients 52 Age Average age at surgery 63.45 years Standard deviation 11.55 years Range 25.6 – 84.7 years Gender Male 26 Female 26 Penetration depth (pT staging) pT1 m 16 pT1 sm 20 pT2 8 pT3 8 Lymph node status pN0 35 pN1 10 pN2 6 pN3 1 Histological type according to Lauren’s classification Intestinal type 24 Diffuse type 21 Mixed type 7

Table 1: List of Patients’ characteristics in the investigation of gastric cancer from patients (n=52) who underwent curative gastrectomy between 2001 and 2006 at the Division of Surgery by Technical University of Munich.