Stage
Stage was highly predictive of outcome on both univariate
(p<0.001) and multi-variate analysis, especially for patients
with stage 3 (p=0.017) and stage 4 (p<0.001) disease. Table 2
shows the 5-year OS and EFS by stage. The Kaplan-Meier curves are shown
for OS (Fig. 3) and EFS (Fig. 4).