Table 2.

Results of univariate log rank analyses for the risk on local recurrence, the risk on distant metastases and the survival for the presence of inflammatory infiltrate and eosinophilic granuloytes.

	inflammatory infiltrate			eosinophilic granulocytes
	none/few	extensive	P	none/ few	moderate	extensive	P
local recurrence rate	6.9%	3.4%	0.03	7.4%	4.8%	2.8%	0.10
(2 year)
distant metastases	23.8%	8.2%	<0.0001	23.8%	16.8%	16.1%	0.03
rate (2 year)
cumulative survival	79.1%	92.0%	<0.0001	79.0%	84.1%	86.9%	0.007
(2 year)

Median follow-up is 19.6 months, n = 1416.