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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Urology. 2008 May 12;72(2):359–363. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.02.061

Table 1.

Relationship Between Demographic, Clinical, and Tumor Features and Overall Survival.

Variables N (%) Unadjusted HR* (95% CI^) p value

Sex
  Female 258 (37%) 1.0 (ref) -
  Male 439 (63%) 1.244 (0.877–1.764) 0.220

Ethnicity
  White 583 (84%) 1.0 (ref) -
  Black 106 (15%) 0.921 (0.584–1.450) 0.722
  Others 8 (1%) #

Age
  ≤65 years old 135 (19%) 1.0 (ref) -
  66–75 years old 271 (39%) 0.822 (0.485–1.394) 0.467
  ≥76 years old 291 (42%) 1.726 (1.079–2.760) 0.023

Comorbidity Severity
  None 176 (25%) 1.0 (ref) -
  Mild 256 (37%) 1.012 (0.644–1.592) 0.957
  Moderate 172 (25%) 1.157 (0.726–1.844) 0.541
  Severe 93 (13%) 2.119 (1.305–3.443) 0.002

Tumor Size
  <4cm 364 (52%) 1.0 (ref) -
  4–7 cm 166 (24%) 1.696 (1.113–1.585) <.0001
  >7 cm 167 (24%) 2.265 (1.550–3.310) <0.001

AJCC Pathologic
  Stage I 410 (59%) 1.0 (ref) -
  Stage II 199 (29%) 1.575 (1.063–2.335) 0.024
  Stage III 73 (10%) 3.070 (1.925–4.895) <0.001
  Stage IV 15 (2%) 11.705 (6.192–22.124) <0.001

Grade
  Low (I,II) 497 (71%) 1.0 (ref) -
  High (III,IV) 200 (29%) 2.065 (1.474–2.893) <0.001

Histology
  MLC 15 (2%) 1.0 (ref) -
  Chromophobe 26 (4%) 2.020 (0.210–19.418) 0.543
  Papillary 110(16%) 3.859 (0.522–28.527) 0.186
  Clear Cell 504 (72%) 3.750 (0.523–26.875) 0.188
  Oncocytoma 22 (3%) 3.331 (0.401–27.681) 0.265
  UNCL 10 (1%) 4.143 (0.495–45.787) 0.219
  Collecting Duct 10 (1%) 7.735 (0.803–74.485) 0.077
*

Hazard ratio (HR)

^

Confidence Interval (CI)

#

No patients died in this ethnicity