Death after number of years Alive  ≤  1 1–3 3–5 5–17 Number (n) 6 10 6 32 102 DI 1.037 ± 0.064 1.040 ± 0.037 1.057 ± 0.055 1.069 ± 0.049 1.034 ± 0.049 SSI 11.77 ± 6.04 14.42 ± 9.56 15.96 ± 13.69 9.23 ± 3.97 9.28 ± 7.37

Table 4: D-type tumor relapse-free survival and death over 17 years of follow up. Shortest time elapsed to death (within 3 years) occurred for D-type tumors in the DI interval: 1.037 ≤ DI ≤ 1.040), an interval within which we found the connection to T-type and A-type tumors (Figure 7a-b)