Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Predicting postoperative peritoneal metastasis in gastric cancer with serosal invasion using a collagen nomogram

  • Dexin Chen,
  • Zhangyuanzhu Liu,
  • Wenju Liu,
  • Meiting Fu,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Shuoyu Xu,
  • Guangxing Wang,
  • Feng Chen,
  • Jianping Lu,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Xiaoyu Dong,
  • Guoxin Li,
  • Gang Chen,
  • Shuangmu Zhuo,
  • Jun Yan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20429-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Gastric cancer can metastasise to the peritoneal cavity; predicting in which patients this will occur is important for clinical management of the disease. Here, the authors use multi-photon imaging to derive a collagen signature of the primary cancer that allows the prediction of metastasis.