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. 2014 Jun 6;9(6):e96849. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096849

Table 1. Patient characteristics of 1,892 patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer in the participating cohorts.* .

Denmark (n = 280) Netherlands (n = 639) Spain (n = 973)
Age Mean (SD) 66.4 10.2 65.3 12.4 65.7 10.0
Gender Male 219 78.2% 503 78.7% 850 87.4%
Stage Ta 177 63.2% 432 67.6% 818 84.1%
T1 103 36.8% 207 32.4% 155 15.9%
Grade G1 78 27.9% 189 29.6% 419 43.1%
G2 83 29.6% 283 44.3% 327 33.6%
G3 119 42.5% 167 26.1% 227 23.3%
Carcinoma in situ CIS 89 31.8% 52 8.1% 0 0.0%
No CIS 189 67.5% 572 89.5% 0 0.0%
Missing 2 0.7% 15 2.4% 973 100.0%
Tumour size <3 cm 175 62.5% 238 37.2% 564 58.0%
≥3 cm 73 26.1% 114 17.9% 133 13.6%
Missing 32 11.4% 287 44.9% 276 28.4%
Number of tumours 1 82 29.3% 349 54.6% 647 66.5%
>1 13 4.6% 178 27.9% 277 28.5%
Missing 185 66.1% 112 17.5% 49 5.0%
Treatment TUR alone 227 81.0% 140 21.9% 404 41.5%
TUR+BCG 52 18.6% 108 16.9% 289 29.7%
TUR+Chemo 0 0.0% 80 12.5% 212 21.8%
TUR+Chemo+BCG 1 0.4% 29 4.5% 51 5.2%
Other 0 0.0% 5 0.8% 17 1.7%
Missing 0 0.0% 277 43.4% 0 0.0%
Status tumour ** Recurrence 209 74.6% 303 47.4% 327 33.6%
Progression 66 23.6% 99 15.5% 93 9.6%
Vital status ** Alive 72 25.7% 321 50.2% 700 71.9%
Cancer death 12 4.3% 51 8.0% 62 6.4%
Other death 7 2.5% 90 14.1% 211 21.7%
Missing 189 67.5% 177 27.7% 0 0.0%

*Numbers are totals (%), unless stated otherwise.

**At the end of follow-up.