The pretreatment Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score is an independent prognostic factor in patients with resectable thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: results from a retrospective study

Table 5 Cause of death

	Low-CONUT (n = 168)	High-CONUT (n = 17)	p value
Total	65 (38.7 %)	12 (70.6 %)
Primary disease	35 (20.8 %)	8 (47.1 %)	0.015
Other disease	21 (12.5 %)	2 (11.8 %)	1.000*
Other cancer	7 (4.2 %)	1 (5.9 %)	0.545*
Postoperative complications	2 (1.2 %)	1 (5.9 %)	0.252*

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