Table 1. Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients from the study.

	Arm A		Arm B		Both Arms
Characteristics	No. of patients	%	No. of patients	%	No. of patients	%
	48	52	44	48	92	100
Age, years
Mean	60.7		62.6		61.6
Range	37.0–74.0		33.0–77.0		33.0–77.0
Sex
Female	17	35	23	52	40	44
Male	31	65	21	48	52	56
Resection
R0	27	56	25	57	52	57
R1	21	44	19	43	40	43
Tumour status
T1	1	2	0	0	1	1
T2	2	4	0	0	2	2
T3	45	94	43	98	88	96
T4	0	0	1	2	1	1
Node status
N0	10	21	8	18	18	20
N1	38	79	36	82	74	80
Grade
1	2	4	1	2	3	3
2	31	65	32	73	63	69
3	15	31	11	25	26	28