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. 2018 Mar 15;144(6):1119–1128. doi: 10.1007/s00432-018-2624-6

Table 2.

The difference in frequency of failures in each risk group divided by T/N stage

Risk group Total no. First LRF Overall LRF First DF
No. % No. % No. %
Low risk
 T1-2/N0 445 9 2.0 9 2.0 13 2.9
Intermediate risk
 T1-2/N1 39 0 0.0 0 0.0 9 23.1
 T3/N0 200 8 4.0 8 4.0 31 15.5
Moderately high
 T1-2/N2 3 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
 T3/N1 78 1 1.3 2 2.6 20 25.6
 T4/N0 6 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
High risk
 T3/N2 43 6 14.0 6 14.0 12 27.9
 T4/N1 7 0 0.0 1 14.3 2 28.6
 T4/N2 5 1 20.0 2 40.0 3 60.0

We followed the Gunderson’s risk group classification (Gunderson et al. 2004)

LRF locoregional failure, DF distant failure