Table 5.
Analysis of the number of applied treatment sessions in different subgroups.
| Number of therapies | PDT N=100 (%) |
IVB N=104 (%) |
TTT N=222 (%) |
All N=426 (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One therapy | 39 (39.0%) | 34 (32.7%) | 51 (23.0%) | 124 (29.1%) |
| Two therapies | 31 (31.0%) | 30 (28.9%) | 57 (25.7%) | 118 (27.7%) |
| Three therapies | 13 (13.0%) | 25 (24.0%) | 84 (37.8%) | 122 (28.6%) |
| Four therapies | 9 (9.0%) | 13 (12.5%) | 24 (10.8%) | 46 (10.8%) |
| Five or more therapies | 8 (8.0%) | 2 (1.9%) | 6 (2.7%) | 16 (3.8%) |
| Comparison between groups | Kruskal-Wallis Test H=9.06 p=0.0108 Mann-Whitney Test1,2 Z=−0.80 p=0.4017 Mann-Whitney Test1,3 Z=−2.71 p = 0.0049 Mann-Whitney Test2,3 Z=1.83 p = 0.0675 |
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Mann-Whitney Test1,2 comparison between PDT and IVB; Mann-Whitney Test1,3 comparison between PDT and TTT; Mann-Whitney Test2,3 comparison between IVB and TTT.