| Surgery n = 245 | Curative RT n = 132 | Non-curative treatment n = 158 | p-value | p-value Surg vs RT | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age | Median | 67 | 73 | 78 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
(range) | 43–86 | 35–94 | 55–93 |  |  | |
Sex | Female | 133 54% | 61 46% | 80 51% | 0.322 | 0.135 |
Male | 112 46% | 71 54% | 78 49% | Â | Â | |
Histology | Adenocarcinoma | 138 56% | 34 26% | 20 13% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
Squamous | 76 31% | 42 32% | 56 35% | Â | Â | |
NOS/other | 31 13% | 56 42% | 82 52% | Â | Â | |
ECOG | 0–1 | 173 71% | 87 66% | 59 37% | < 0.001 | 0.614 |
performance | ≥2 | 61 25% | 39 30% | 94 60% |  |  |
status | Unknown | 11 5% | 6 5% | 5 3% | Â | Â |
Weight loss | < 5% body weight 5–10% | 145 59% 39 16% | 73 55% 16 12% | 61 39% 25 16% | 0.001 | 0.122 |
> 10% | 20 8% | 21 16% | 28 18% |  |  | |
Unknown | 41 17% | 22 17% | 44 28% | Â | Â | |
Smoking | Never | 20 8% | 3 2% | 11 7% | 0.046 | 0.053 |
Former | 113 46% | 74 56% | 74 47% | Â | Â | |
Current | 109 45% | 52 39% | 65 41% | Â | Â | |
Unknown | 3 1% | 3 2% | 8 5% | Â | Â |