TABLE IV.
5-Year rates of overall survival (OS) in patients receiving and not receiving adjuvant chemotherapy, by postoperative staging
| Variable | Adjuvant chemotherapy | |||
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| Yes (n=125) | No (n=54) | |||
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| Pts (n) | OS (%) | Pts (n) | OS (%) | |
| Postoperative T stage | ||||
| Complete response | 11 | 90.9 | 12 | 41.0 |
| Focal T1 | 12 | 83.3 | 6 | 80.0 |
| T2 | 22 | 73.6 | 13 | 56.1 |
| T3 | 75 | 69.3 | 18 | 17.9 |
| T4 | 5 | 20.0 | 5 | 30.0 |
| p=0.0005a,b | ||||
| Postoperative lymph node stage | ||||
| N0 | 74 | 77.2 | 33 | 52.3 |
| N1 | 29 | 75.8 | 10 | 15.2 |
| N2 | 22 | 38.7 | 11 | 11.4 |
| p=0.0005a,c | ||||
a
By Mantel–Cox log-rank test.
b
Adjusted for postoperative tumour stage.
c
Adjusted for postoperative nodal stage.
Pts = patients.