Definitive concurrent chemoradiotherapy with docetaxel plus cisplatin versus 5-fluorouracil plus cisplatin in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: long-term follow-up results of a phase II randomized controlled trial

Table 3 Location of disease at first treatment failure and patterns of failure

First failure	PF group (N = 41)	DP group (N = 45)	P-value
Location of disease at first treatment failure
Local-regional only	17	12
Distant only	4	12
Local-regional and distant	6	12
Patterns of failure
Local-regional failure	23(56.1%)	24(53.4%)	0.797
Distant failure	10(24.2%)	24(53.4%)	0.006

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