Table 6.
Lymph node metastasis, cN (UICC TNM 7th)
| Clinical N | Endoscopic treatment (%) | Surgery | Chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy | Total (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esophagectomy (%) | Palliative surgery (%) | CRT (%) | RT alone (%) | Chemotherapy alone (%) | Palliative RT (%) | Others (%) | |||
| cN0 | 1612 (94.3%) | 2365 (45.7%) | 19 (10.4%) | 327 (27.1%) | 128 (38.8%) | 69 (15.3%) | 22 (19.6%) | 844 (27.9%) | 4621 (49.3%) |
| cN1 | 54 (3.2%) | 1752 (33.9%) | 57 (31.3%) | 389 (32.2%) | 119 (36.1%) | 139 (30.9%) | 30 (26.8%) | 1290 (42.7%) | 2602 (27.8%) |
| cN2 | 31 (1.8%) | 901 (17.4%) | 76 (41.8%) | 346 (28.7%) | 63 (19.1%) | 144 (32.0%) | 37 (33.0%) | 745 (24.7%) | 1642 (17.5%) |
| cN3 | 12 (0.7%) | 154 (3.0%) | 30 (16.5%) | 145 (12.0%) | 20 (6.1%) | 98 (21.8%) | 23 (20.5%) | 141 (4.7%) | 503 (5.4%) |
| cNX | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Total | 1709 | 5172 | 182 | 1207 | 330 | 450 | 112 | 3020 | 9368 |