Table 5.

Characteristics of patients who received NACRT according to prognosis

Characteristic	No relapse	Relapse	P valueb
Age (years)a	63 (12)	65.9 (19.5)	0.650
Sex (% male)	70.2%	71.4%	0.927
Distance between the tumor and the anus (cm)a	6 (7)	7.0 (3.8)	0.186
Number of lymph nodes harvesteda	9 (9)	13.0 (9.5)	0.373
Number of metastatic lymph nodesa	0 (1)	0.5 (3.0)	0.018
Lymph node ratioa	0 (0.09)	0.04 (0.27)	0.007
Patients without metastatic lymph nodes (%)	57.9%	35.7%	0.136

NACRT neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

^aResults are reported as median (interquartile range)

^bP values < 0.05 are reported in bold