Characteristic No. of patients
Sex
Male 18
Female 2
Primary site
Proximal 0
Distal 20
Mid 0
Throughout 0
Histology
Squamous cell carcinoma 3
Adenocarcinoma 17
Histologic grade
Well differentiated 3
Moderately differentiated 10
Poorly differentiated 5
Unknown 2
Clinical stage
T1 0
T2 2
T3 18
T4 0
N0 6
N1 14
M0 18
M1a 2
Pathologic stage
ypT0 5
ypT2 8
ypT3 6
ypTx 1
ypN0 14
ypN1 6
Pathologic response
Pathologic complete response 5
Microscopic residual disease 4
Gross residual disease 11
Table 1: Patient characteristics (n=20).