Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Patients | |
| Age | years old |
| median | 64 |
| range | 50–72 |
| Gender | Number of patients |
| male | 29 |
| female | 1 |
| Preoperative Stage (UICC* 1997) | Number of patients |
| I | 4 |
| II A | 2 |
| II B | 3 |
| III | 17 |
| IV | 2 |
| unknown | 2 |
| Site of recurence | Number of patients |
| supraclavicular lymph node | 9 |
| mediastinal lymph node | 14 |
| abdominal lymph node | 7 |
| local | 9 |
| Performance Status (ECOG†) | Number of patients |
| 0 | 10 |
| 1 | 15 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 |
| 4 | 0 |
| State at last observation date (August 31, 2005) | Number of patients |
| alive | 15 |
| dead | 13 |
| unknown | 2 |
* UICC: Union Internationale Contre le Cancer, † ECOG: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group