Table 2.
Recurrence rates and sites between patients with surgery followed by adjuvant radiotherapy and surgery alone
| Therapy | No.of patients | No. of LR (%) | No. of RR (%) |
First recurrence sites (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL | MS | CW | Lung | DP | DM | ||||
| S + R |
53 |
2 (3.8) |
9 (17.0) |
5 (9.4) |
2 (3.8) |
2 (3.8) |
1 (1.9) |
0 |
1 (1.9) |
| S alone | 12 | 2 (16.7) | 2 (16.7) | 1 (8.3) | 0 | 0 | 1 (8.3) | 1 (8.3) | 0 |
S + R indicates surgery plus radiotherapy, S, surgery; LR, local recurrence; RR, regional recurrence; PL, pleura; MS, mediastinum; CW, chest wall; DP, diaphragm; DM, distant metastasis.