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. 2023 Aug 18;13:13478. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-39717-y

Table 1.

Patient characteristics. Patients were distributed according to the year of diagnosis, gender and age groups. Population with conservative management were significantly higher than those of surgery (p < 0.001). Male.

Variables Group I (conservative) Group II (surgery) Total p-value
(N = 127,194) (N = 43,652) (N = 170,846)
N (%) N (%) N (%)
Year of diagnosis < 0.001
 2002–2005 32,939 (26.0) 8,049 (18.4) 40,988 (24.0)
 2006–2010 38,209 (30.0) 13,469 (30.9) 51,678 (30.2)
 2011–2015 33,357 (26.2) 12,997 (29.8) 46,354 (27.1)
 2016–2020 22,689 (17.8) 9,137 (20.9) 31,826 (18.6)
Gender < 0.001
 Men 106,771 (83.9) 39,709 (91.0) 146,480 (85.7)
 Women 20,423 (16.1) 3,943 (9.0) 24,366 (14.3)
Age < 0.001
21.3 ± 6.8 21.0 ± 5.0 21.2 ± 6.4
Group < 0.001
 < 14 8,893 (4.6) 638 (1.5) 9,531 (3.8)
 ≤ 14, < 20 57,386 (46.3) 25,753 (59.0) 83,139 (49.6)
 ≤ 20 60,915 (49.1) 17,261 (39.5) 78,176 (46.6)
Recurrence < 0.001
23,891 (18.8) 10,852 (24.9) 34,743 (20.3)