Table 1. The demographic and clinical characteristics of included patients and the treatments they received, stratified by age groups.
| Variable | Category | No. (%) of patients | No. (%) of patients grouping by age (years) |
P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < 60 (n = 198) | 60–69 (n = 172) | > 69 (n = 158) | ||||
| Sex | Male | 479 (90.7) | 188 (94.9) | 157 (91.3) | 134 (84.8) | < 0.01 |
| Female | 49 (9.3) | 10 (5.1) | 15 (8.7) | 24 (15.2) | ||
| Stage | 0 | 155 (29.4) | 70 (35.4) | 37 (21.5) | 48 (30.4) | 0.141 |
| I | 223 (42.2) | 72 (36.4) | 85 (49.4) | 66 (41.8) | ||
| II | 58 (11.0) | 22 (11.1) | 22 (12.8) | 14 (8.9) | ||
| III | 24 (4.5) | 10 (5.1) | 8 (4.7) | 6 (3.8) | ||
| IV | 68 (12.9) | 24 (12.1) | 20 (11.6) | 24 (15.2) | ||
| Comorbidity | 0 | 225 (42.6) | 96 (48.5) | 63 (36.6) | 66 (41.8) | < 0.01 |
| 1 | 132 (25.0) | 56 (28.3) | 48 (27.9) | 28 (17.7) | ||
| 2 | 123 (23.3) | 36 (18.2) | 48 (27.9) | 39 (24.7) | ||
| 3 | 48 (9.1) | 10 (5.1) | 13 (7.6) | 25 (15.8) | ||
| Grade | Low (I, II) | 263 (49.8) | 107 (54.0) | 85 (49.4) | 71 (44.9) | 0.231 |
| High (III, IV) | 265 (50.2) | 91 (46.0) | 87 (50.6) | 87 (55.1) | ||
| Therapy Superficial | TURB | 358 (67.8) | 136 (95.8) | 113 (92.6) | 109 (95.6) | 0.205 |
| Partial/radical cystectomy | 20 (3.8) | 6 (4.2) | 9 (7.4) | 5 (4.4) | ||
| Muscle invasive | TURB/partial cystectomy | 44 (8.3) | 11 (26.2) | 16 (44.4) | 17 (51.5) | < 0.01 |
| Radical cystectomy | 58 (11.0) | 31 (73.8) | 20 (55.6) | 7 (21.2) | ||
| Metastatic | TURB/partial cystectomy | 46 (8.7) | 13 (92.9) | 13 (92.9) | 20 (100.0) | 0.141 |
| Radical cystectomy | 2 (0.4) | 1 (7.1) | 1 (7.1) | 0 | ||
Abbreviation: TURB, transurethral resection of the bladder.