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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Surg. 2013 Jun;48(6):1254–1262. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2013.03.021

Table 1.

Cohort description and loss to follow up analysis for patients in the Kenyan Wilms Tumor Registry.

Overall Loss to Follow Up (LTFU) Analysis
Statistic (n) 95% CI Not LTFU LTFU p*
Male, % 53.4 (133) 44.5 – 62.1 49.4 59.3 0.291
NHIF Participant, % 53.7 (123) 44.4 – 62.7 53.9 53.2 1.000
Age In Months, mean 41 (133) 36.7 – 45.3 40.0 42.4 0.601§
Months of Symptoms Prior to Diagnosis, mean 3.1 (66) 2.2 – 3.9 2.97 3.2 0.800§
Days From Presentation To Diagnosis, mean 15.5 (133) 9.6 – 21.4 20.8 7.8 0.033§
Days From Presentation To First Therapeutic Intervention, mean 41.2 (118) 27.6 – 54.8 41.4 41.0 0.973§
Days of Follow-Up, mean 263.3 (133) 210.4 – 316.2 270.4 253.0 0.750§
Number Mobile Numbers, mean 1.3 (132) 1.2 – 1.4 1.3 1.3 0.910§
Patient HIV** positive, % 2.4 (42) 00.0 – 12.6 3.7 0.0 1.000
Parent HIV positive, % 7.4 (27) 00.9 – 24.2 5.9 10.0 1.000
Up Front Resection††, % 27.6 (127) 20.0 – 36.1 21.6 35.9 0.107
Preoperative Chemotherapy††, % 74.3 (82) 63.6 – 83.4 64.7 90.3 0.010
Resection††, % 69.9 (133) 61.4 – 77.6 58.2 87.0 0.080
Postoperative Chemotherapy††, % 51.8 (83) 40.6 – 62.9 41.5 61.9 0.002
Radiotherapy††, % 16.8 (131) 10.8 – 24.3 12.7 23.1 0.153
Completed all Therapy, % 24.8 (133) 17.7 – 33.0 13.9 40.7 0.001
Currently Receving Treatment, % 18.8 (133) 12.5 – 26.5 31.7 0.0 < 0.001
 Stage Estimates, % (n = 125)
I 3.2 (4) 2.6 4.1
II 42.4 (53) 47.4 34.7
III 36 (45) 26.3 51.0
IV 16.8 (21) 21.1 10.2
V 1.6 (2) 2.6 0.0 0.034
 Laterality % (n = 131)
Right 48.1 (63) 56.4 41.5
Left 50.4 (66) 41.0 58.5
Bilateral Synchronous 1.5 (2) 2.6 0.0 0.085
*

p compares NOT lost to follow up to lost to follow up.

Fishers Exact

National Hospital Insurance Fund

§

T-Test

**

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

††

Patient completed the given therapy