T category | Local recurrence during follow-up | Lymph node metastasis | Distant metastasis during follow-up | Death from disease during follow-up | ||
At presentation | During follow-up | By last contact | ||||
T1 (n=33) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
T2 (n=21) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
T3 (n=36) | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
T4 (n=10) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
Total | 6 | 10 | 12* | 21 | 7 | 6† |
*Eleven of these 12 patients had no lymph node metastasis at presentation; 1 patient had lymph node metastasis at presentation and had an additional lymph node metastasis documented during follow-up.
†All six patients who died from disease had distant metastasis, and five of those patients also had lymph node metastasis.