Table 1.
Distribution of patients (N = 456) by clinical and demographic characteristics
| Variables | Deceased of cancer N (%) |
Alive N (%) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|
| N = 139 | N = 317 | ||
| Age (years) | |||
| Mean (SD) | 66.8 (6.6) | 62.0 (7.6) | <0.001 |
| Smoking Status | |||
| Current | 65 (46.8) | 149 (47.1) | 0.24 |
| Former | 70 (50.4) | 146 (46.2) | |
| Never | 4 (2.8) | 21 (6.7) | |
| Tumour stage | |||
| pTa/T1 | 101 (72.7) | 286(92.3) | <0.001 |
| pT2+ | 38 (26.3) | 24 (7.7) | |
| Tumour grade | |||
| G1 | 28 (20.3) | 112 (27.6) | <0.001 |
| G2 | 47 (34.1) | 116 (39.8) | |
| G3 | 63 (45.6) | 87 (35.6 | |
| Treatment | |||
| Only BCG or no medical treatment | 94 (67.6) | 208 (65.8) | 0.74 |
| Intravesical chemotherapy | 38 (27.3) | 108 (34.1) | |
| Systemic chemotherapy | 7 (5.1) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Radiotherapy | 21 (15.1) | 10 (3.2) | <0.001 |
| Radical cystectomy | 43 (30.9) | 44 (13.9) | <0.001 |