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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2022 Jul;20(7):783–791.e1. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2022.7008

Table 2.

Pathological outcomes of patients who underwent a resection in the matched cohort.

Matched cohort
Overall No radiotherapy Radiotherapy P-value
n = 192 n = 109 n = 83
Tumor size, mm (median [IQR]) 25 [18, 33] 25 [20, 30] 25 [17, 36] 0.83
T stagea, n (%) 0.13
 ypT0 8 (4.2) 2 (1.8) 6 (7.3)
 ypT1-2 145 (75.9) 87 (79.8) 58 (70.7)
 ypT3-4 38 (19.9) 20 (18.3) 18 (22.0)
N stagea, n (%) 0.01*
 ypN0 88 (46.1) 41 (37.6) 47 (57.3)
 ypN1 67 (35.1) 41 (37.6) 26 (31.7)
 ypN2 36 (18.8) 27 (24.8) 9 (11.0)
Resection margin statusb, n (%) 0.53
 R0 118 (67.0) 70 (64.8) 48 (70.6)
 R1 58 (33.0) 38 (35.2) 20 (29.4)
Tumor differentiation, n (%) 0.01*
 Well (G1) 5 (2.9) 5 (5.0) 0 (0.0)
 Moderate (G2) 125 (72.3) 77 (77.0) 48 (65.8)
 Poor (G3) 43 (24.9) 18 (18.0) 25 (34.2)
Perineural invasion, n (%) 147 (77.4) 84 (77.8) 63 (76.8) 1
Lymphovascular invasion, n (%) 101 (53.4) 64 (59.3) 37 (45.7) 0.09
Pathologic response, n (%) 0.01*
 <5% tumor viability 28 (15.8) 8 (8.3) 20 (24.7)
 ≥5% tumor viability 149 (84.2) 88 (91.7) 61 (75.3)
a

8th edition of American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging.

b

1mm definition of Royal College of Pathologists.

* =

significant p-value <0.05. Abbreviations: G, grade; IQR, interquartile range; n, number; yp, pathological outcome after neoadjuvant treatment. Missing data: tumor size (n=2), ypT (n=1), ypN (n=1), resection margin (n=16), tumor differentiation (n=19), perineural invasion (n=2), lymphovascular invasion (n=3), pathologic response (n=15)