Table 2.

Survival and recurrence data according to number of blood transfusions

	no transfusion	1-2 transfusions	≥ 3 transfusions	p	p
	A	B	C	A vs.B	A vs.C
5 year overall survival	66.0 ± 3.1 %	59.7 ± 6.6 %	27.0 ± 8.8 %	0.324	< 0.001
5 year disease-free survival	61.0 ± 3.0 %	59.9 ± 6.5 %	20.0 ± 7.5 %	0.764	< 0.001
5 year recurrence rate
total	25.6 ± 2.7 %	26.0 ± 6.1 %	60.1 ± 10.5 %	0.992	< 0.001
local	6.7 ± 1.7 %	5.6 ± 2.7 %	12.6 ± 7.3 %	0.909	0.204
distant	19.7 ± 2.4 %	20.0 ± 5.9 %	54.5 ± 11.6 %	0.630	0.001