Table 2.
Postoperative outcomes of patients with ≤ 8 week interval between radiation and surgery and patients with > 8 week interval between radiation and surgery.
| Outcome | Interval ≤ 8 weeks N=150 |
Interval > 8 weeks N=116 |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operation Characteristics | |||
| Intraoperative Transfusion | 19 (13%) | 26 (22%) | 0.05 |
| Mean Estimated Blood Loss (mL) | 502 ± 53 | 478 ± 29 | 0.44 |
| Mean Surgery Time (minutes) | 390 ± 8 | 398 ± 10 | 0.37 |
| Mean Number of Lymph Nodes Removed | 21 ± 0.8 | 20 ± 0.9 | 0.21 |
| Pathologic Stage | 0.79 | ||
| Path Complete Response | 32 (21%) | 26 (22%) | |
| Stage I | 19 (13%) | 10 (9%) | |
| Stage II | 65 (43%) | 51 (44%) | |
| Stage III | 33 (22%) | 27 (23%) | |
| Stage IV | 1 (1%) | 2 (2%) | |
| Postoperative Complications | |||
| Mortality | 3 (2%) | 4 (3%) | 0.70 |
| Pulmonary Complication | 47 (31%) | 41 (35%) | 0.51 |
| Anastomotic Leak | 17 (11%) | 19 (16%) | 0.28 |
| Median Length of Stay (days) | 11 | 11 | 0.41 |
| Median Survival (months) | 53 [30–77] | 39 [28–50] | 0.23 |
Mean values expressed with ± SEM. Median survival expressed with 95% confidence interval.