Table 1. Patient characteristics at baseline.

Characteristic	N
Age
Median	59
Range	31–74
WHO performance status
0	25
1	26
2	3
Location
Cardia	43
Corpus	11
Prior adjuvant chemotherapy	0
No. of organs involved
1	30
2	17
>3	7
Stage
Locally advanced disease	9
Metastatic disease	45
Status of primary tumour
R0 resection	9
R1 resection	2
R2 resection	4
No surgery	39
Increased alkaline phosphatase (>300 U l−1)	4
Increased ALAT (0 U l−1)	8