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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2012 Jan 17;118(18):4597–4605. doi: 10.1002/cncr.27414

Table 2.

Characteristics of the Study Population and Association of Parameters With Age

Characteristic All, n=1054 Age, No. (%) P a
<10 Years, n=176, 17% 10-17 Years, n=749, 71% ≥18 Years, n=129, 12%
Sex <.001b
        Male 593 (56) 91 (52) 406 (54) 96 (74)
        Female 461 (44) 85 (48) 343 (46) 33 (26)
Race .059
        Black 151 (14) 27 (15) 107 (14) 17 (13)
        Hispanic 125 (12) 28 (16) 90 (12) 7 (5)
        Other 78 (7) 17 (10) 51 (7) 10 (8)
        White 695 (66) 103 (59) 498 (67) 94 (73)
        Unknown 5 (1) 1 (< 1) 3 (< 1) 1 (1)
Site .066
        Extremity 1010 (96) 171 (97) 720 (96) 119 (92)
        Pelvic 26 (2) 1 (1) 19 (3) 6 (5)
        Other 18 (2) 4 (2) 10 (1) 4 (3)
Metastatic .212
        Yes 176 (17) 22 (13) 134 (18) 20 (16)
        No 878 (83) 154 (87) 615 (82) 109 (84)
Study N/A
        INT-0133 745 (70) 130 (74) 528 (70) 87 (67)
        CCG-7943 28 (3) 6 (3) 17 (2) 5 (4)
        AOST0121 81 (8) 6 (3) 67 (9) 6 (5)
        POG-9754 202 (19) 34 (19) 137 (18) 31 (24)
Response, n=768 .349
        Good 353 (46) 65 (51) 249 (46) 39 (41)
        Poor 415 (54) 63 (49) 296 (54) 56 (59)
Tumor margins, n=728 .893
        Positive 62 (8) 12 (9) 42 (8) 8 (9)
        Negative 682 (92) 118 (91) 482 (92) 85 (91)

Abbreviation: N/A, not applicable.

a

P value associated with the test of the hypothesis that the row characteristic is independent of age.

b

Statistically significant.