Table 2.

The median and mean survival of younger, middle-aged and older patients with oesophageal adenocarcinoma

Ref.	Young age	Middle age	Older age	Significance
Median survival
Boys et al[16]1	17 months	N/A	30 months	P = 0.04
Kolb et al[17]2	15.2 months	15.1 months	10.4 months	P < 0.1
Hashemi et al[23]3	21.1 months	N/A	22 months	Not significant
Mean survival
Sawas et al[14]4	4 ± 4.2 years	5 ± 3.9 years	3.6 ± 3.2 years	P = 0.03

¹Young age < 40 years and old age ≥ 40 years.

²Young age < 50 years, middle aged 50-69 and old age ≥ 70 years.

³Young age ≤ 50 years and old age > 50 years.

⁴Young age ≤ 50 years, middle age 51-70 years, old age > 70 years.

N/A: Not applicable.