Figure 2

The observed mortality rate with 95% confidence interval of patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophagus. The panels illustrate the mortality rate of all patients after esophagectomy (a), patients without lymph node involvement (c), patients with lymph node metastases (e), patients with pT1 tumors (b), patients with pT2 tumors (d), and patients with pT3 tumors (f). The corresponding mortality rate of the general population with the same composition of age, gender, and year of birth as the treatment group is presented in each panel.