Methyl-methanesulfonate sensitivity 19 expression is associated with metastasis and chemoradiotherapy response in esophageal cancer

Table 3 Clinical features of patients receiving neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery, n

Characteristic	Good response	Poor response	P value
	(n = 29)	(n = 20 )
Age (yr)
< 55	11	11	0.238
≥ 55	18	9
Sex
Male	24	15	0.763
Female	5	5
Tumor size (cm)
< 5	12	7	0.652
≥ 5	17	13
Site
Upper thoracic	3	2	0.405
Middle thoracic	14	6
Lower thoracic	12	12
Differentiation
Well	5	4	0.936
Moderate	16	10
Poor	8	6
TNM stage
IIb	8	6	0.857
III	21	14
Cytoplasm
High	23	5	< 0.001
Low	6	15
Nucleus
High	9	9	0.319
Low	20	11

High: Including composite score of 6, 8, 9 and 12; Low: Including composite score of 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4; TNM: Tumor-node-metastasis.