RBM3 and gastric cancer: After the fifth and the sixth block procedures were executed, another independent predicator of OS, which was shown to have significant association with the postoperatively OS of gastric cancer patients with positive node metastasis, was identified as RNPL (HR = 0.635; 95%CI 0.458–0.880; P = 0.006) instead of RPDL (P = 0.285).