Table 3.

Quality of life after surgery.

Gender	Male	Female	Total	P value
Quality of life - n(%)
After surgery
Much better	222 (83.5%)	416 (79.2%)	638 (80.7%)
Better	36 (13.5%)	77 (14.7%)	113 (14.3%)	p2 = 0.097
The same	5 (1.9%)	23 (4.4%)	28 (3.5%)
A little worse	1 (0.4%)	8 (1.5%)	9 (1.1%)
Much worse	2 (0.8%)	1 (0.2%)	3 (0.4%)
Total # of patients	266	525	791