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. 2015 Jun 21;2015:790186. doi: 10.1155/2015/790186

Table 2.

Effect of adjuvant therapy on (recurrence-free) survival.

Stage 2 − adj Tx Stage 2 + adj Tx p Stage 3 − adj Tx Stage 3 + adj Tx p
Number of patients 139 9 38 57
Recurrence rate 0,19 0,33 0,379 0,42 0,4 1,000
Median OS (iqr) 6,42 (4,25–8,59) 6,17 (2,08–7,42) 0,772 1,79 (0,60–6,07) 5,51 (4,06–7,47) 0,000
Median RFS (iqr) 5,73 (2.76–8,11) 5,49 (1.33–7,31) 0,325 1,19 (0,36–5,94) 5,08 (2,12–7,40) 0,084
Median age (iqr) 75,3 (65,4–80,4) 61,0 (59,3–65,7) 0,002 78,7 (73,9–83,1) 63,5 (59,8–69,8) 0,000
Median Charlson index (iqr) 5 (3–6) 3 (2–4.5) 0,038 5 (4–6) 3 (3-4) 0,000
Cause of death (%)
 Alive 87 (56) 5 (56) 8 (21) 32 (56)
 Cancer 18 (13) 3 (33) 15 (40) 18 (32)
 Treatment 3 (2) 1 (11) 8 (21) 0
 Other 29 (21) 0 6 (16) 5 (9)
 Unknown 11 (8) 0 1 (3) 2 (4)

Adj Tx = adjuvant therapy; iqr = interquartile range; OS = overall survival; RFS = recurrence-free survival.