Table 3.

The patterns of failure for patients

	All patients			pT3‐4N1M0			pT1‐2N1M0
	S 229	PORT 246	P	S 149	PORT 171	P	S 80	PORT 75	P
Locoregional recurrence	116 (50.7%)	61 (24.8%)	<0.001	80 (53.7%)	42 (24.6%)	<0.001	36 (45%)	19 (25.3%)	0.011
Supraclavicular	32 (14%)	10 (4.1%)	<0.001	25 (16.8%)	7 (4.1%)	<0.001	7 (8.8%)	3 (4%)	0.229
Anastomotic	9 (3.9%)	8 (3.3%)	0.691	8 (5.4%)	6 (3.5%)	0.417	1 (1.3%)	2 (2.7%)	0.522
Mediastinum	75 (32.8%)	34 (13.8%)	<0.001	56 (37.6%)	21 (12.3%)	<0.001	19 (23.8%)	13 (17.3%)	0.324
Celiac	18 (7.9%)	15 (6.1%)	0.450	9 (6%)	12 (7%)	0.725	9 (11.3%)	3 (4%)	0.091
Hematogenous metastasis	56 (24.5%)	81 (32.9%)	0.042	37 (24.8%)	64 (37.4%)	0.016	19 (23.8%)	17 (22.7%)	0.873