Table 1.

Demographics of the patients and the tumours

Characteristic	All patients (28)	Palliative chemotherapy (15)	Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (5)	Sequential chemoradiotherapy (8)
Age (yr)
Median	72	72	79	70
Range	52-86	53-86	58-83	52-78
Performance status of 0 or 1 (%)	82	67	100	100
Sex
Male (%)	57	53	100	38
Female (%)	43	47	None	62
Tumour Stage
Limited (%)	60	27	100	100
Extensive (%)	40	73	None	None
Location of the tumour
Mid-oesophagus (%)	18	27	None	13
Low-oesophagus (%)	82	73	100	87