Table 1.
Overall accuracy of T staging, stratified according to the location of the cancer
All patients (n=101) | Oesophageal cancer (n=32) | Gastric cancer (n=33) | Pancreatic cancer (n=36) | |
Routine analysis | 73.3% | 81.3% | 66.7% | 72.2% |
Blinded | 52.5%** | 50.0%** | 45.5%* | 61.1% |
Unblinded | 62.4%* | 71.9% | 39.4%** | 75.0% |
*p<0.05, **p<0.01 compared with “routine analysis” (McNemar test).