Table 3.

Five year Cause-specific survival (CSS) rates with p values from logrank test. The hazard ratios (HR) their 95 % confidence intervals and associated p values were estimated using the Cox proportional hazards model with adjustment for age, gender, grade and site of tumour, income deprivation, co-morbidity and, where appropriate, stage. The MDT+ group is compared to the MDT- group and so a hazard rate <1.00 indicates survival benefit from MDT discussion and implementation

		5 year CSS		Logrank p	Adjusted HR	p value
All patients		MDT+	MDT-
	All stages	63.1 %	48.2 %	<0.0001	0.73 (0.53 to 1.00)	0.047
	Early	80.6 %	86.4 %	0.598	1.32 (0.69 to 2.49)	0.401
	Advanced	18.0 %	8.4 %	<0.00001	0.65 (0.45 to 0.96)	0.031
Survived >6w
	All stages	63.2 %	57.7 %	0.064	1.00 (0.70 to 1.42)	0.987
	Early	80.6 %	90.6 %	0.138	1.85 (0.88 to 3.88)	0.105
	Advanced	18.2 %	11.8 %	0.064	0.89 (0.58 to 1.36)	0.590