Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the patient cohort
| UTUC (n = 117) |
RCC (n = 119) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age | |||
| Mean [years] | 72,1 | 64,3 | < 0.001 |
| SD [years] | ± 10.8 | ± 11.5 | |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 79 | 85 | 0.515 |
| Female | 38 | 34 | |
| Tumor volume | |||
| Mean [cm³] | 37,7 | 270,6 | < 0.001 |
| SD [cm³] | 62.8 | 361.0 | |
| T-Stage | |||
| Tx | 20 | 1 | - |
| Ta | 25 | - | |
| Tis | 1 | - | |
| T1 | 9 | 27 | |
| T2 | 6 | 9 | |
| T3 | 50 | 75 | |
| T4 | 6 | 7 | |
| Side of the tumor | |||
| Left | 59 | 67 | 0.366 |
| Right | 58 | 52 | |
| Histology | - | ||
| Clear cell RCC | - | 87 | |
| Papillary RCC | - | 20 | |
| Chromophobe RCC | - | 5 | |
| Sarcomatoid RCC | - | 3 | |
| High-grade UTUC | 85 | - | |
| Low-grade UTUC | 32 | - | |
| Other RCC subtypes | - | 4 |