Patients
Between September 2015 and February 2019, a total of 60 patients were randomized. Two patients did not undergo resection, one patient underwent surgery at a different hospital, and an additional three patients did not respond to any quality-of-life questionnaires. Quality-of-life questionnaires were sent to the remaining 54 patients, 28 in the laparoscopic group and 26 in the open group (Patients and response rates to the EORTC questionnaires in the two treatment armsThe response rates are denoted as the number of patients replying out of the number of patients alive at the time of measurement.The patient characteristics as described in the original publication were relatively comparable, with a mean age of 68 years in the laparoscopic group and 63 years in the open group, a male-to-female ratio of 19 : 10 in the laparoscopic group and 15 : 14 in the open group; and a mean BMI of 27 kg/m