Table 1 Clinico-pathological characteristic of patients undergoing potentially curative resection for oesophageal cancer (n=121)

From: The relationship between tumour necrosis, tumour proliferation, local and systemic inflammation, microvessel density and survival in patients undergoing potentially curative resection of oesophageal adenocarcinoma

 

Adeno ( n =98)

Squamous ( n =23)

P -value

Patient-related factors

 Age (<65/65–74/75 years)

57/35/6

15/6/2

0.755

 Sex (male/female)

83/15

10/13

<0.001

 mGPS (0/1/2)

87/9/2

18/5/0

0.362

 Klintrup–Makinen score (low grade/high grade)

77/21

17/6

0.591

 CD8+ tertiles (1/2/3)

25/39/34

17/5/1

<0.001

 CD68+ tertiles (1/2/3)

25/35/38

12/9/2

0.002

Tumour-related factors

 TNM stage (I/II/III)

15/33/50

7/11/5

0.011

 Tumour differentiation (well-mod/poor)

60/38

11/12

0.251

 Resection margin (R0/R1)

75/23

20/3

0.399

 LNR (0/ 0.2/>0.2)

35/35/28

11/9/3

0.132

 Necrosis score (low grade/high grade)

48/50

9/14

0.488

 Ki67 tertiles (1/2/3)

34/29/35

5/8/10

0.284

 CD34+ tertiles (1/2/3)

26/33/39

15/8/0

<0.001

 Neo-adjuvant therapy (no/yes)

53/45

21/2

0.001

 Adjuvant therapy (no/yes)

81/17

22/1

0.191

Alive

45

8

 

Cancer-specific death

49

11

 

Non-cancer death

4

4

0.893a

  1. Abbreviations: LNR=lymph node ratio; mGPS=modified Glasgow Prognostic score; TNM=tumour node metastasis.
  2. aLog rank test (Mantel–Cox).