Table 1.

Patient and treatment characteristics related to local short-term efficacy of radiotherapy for esophageal cancer.

Study population	CR + PR	SD + PD	P value
N = 63	N = 56	N = 7
Age (years)
Median	65	63	0.23
Range	43–82	55–67
Sex
Female	19	1	0.42
Male	37	6
Stage
I-II	6	1	0.43
III	48	5
IV	2	1
Tumor length
<5 cm	15	3	0.34
≥5 cm	4	4
Acute hematologic toxicity
0/I-II	53	6	0.38
III-IV	3	1
Acute organ toxicity
0/I-II	48	5	0.31
III-IV	8	2

CR + PR: patients with complete or partial response; SD + PD: patients with stable disease or progressive disease.