Table 1 General information of 132 patients with advanced esophageal cancer (n)
Variable | Left thoracic approach(n = 57) | Right thoracic approach (n = 75) | χ2 | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Patients | Incidence(%) | Patients | Incidence(%) | |||
Sex | 0.689 | 0.406 | ||||
Male | 34 | 59.6 | 50 | 66.7 | ||
Female | 23 | 40.4 | 25 | 33.3 | ||
Age | 0.386 | 0.534 | ||||
< 60 | 9 | 15.8 | 15 | 20.0 | ||
≥ 60 | 48 | 84.2 | 60 | 80.0 | ||
T stage | 0.766 | 0.682 | ||||
T1 | 4 | 7.0 | 5 | 6.8 | ||
T2 | 3 | 5.3 | 7 | 7.6 | ||
T3 | 50 | 87.7 | 63 | 85.6 | ||
N stage | 7.014 | 0.071 | ||||
N0 | 33 | 57.9 | 28 | 37.3 | ||
N1 | 11 | 19.3 | 29 | 38.7 | ||
N2 | 9 | 15.8 | 12 | 16.0 | ||
N3 | 4 | 7.0 | 6 | 8.0 | ||
Clinical stage | 5.656 | 0.130 | ||||
IIB | 36 | 63.2 | 33 | 44.0 | ||
IIIA | 4 | 7.0 | 5 | 6.7 | ||
IIIB | 13 | 22.8 | 31 | 41.3 | ||
IV | 4 | 7.0 | 6 | 8.0 | ||