Table 4.

Patient status.

	All (n = 497)	VC (n = 249)	VCE (n = 248)
Current status
Alive, disease free	60	30	30
Alive, disease present, regression	18	8	10
Alive, disease present, stable	316	165	151
Alive, progression/relapse	36	16	20
Dead	54	25	29
No information/lost to follow up	6/7	2/3	4/4
Reasons for death
Tumour progression	38	19	19
Metastases	5	2	3
Complications of tumour or therapy	9	4	5
Relation to tumour not clear	2	–	2
Radiotherapy (RT) for progression	59	33	26
Median age at start of RT (years, q1–q3)	8.0 (6.8–11.4)	7.8 (6.7–10.2)	8.7 (7.0–11.5)
Median time RT was delayed (months, q1–q3)	27.4 (8.3–51.8)	30.5 (11.9–58.4)	15.9 (6.9–51.5)