Table 3. Survival in Patients with Appendiceal Carcinoma by the Log-Rank Test (n = 108).
| No.patients | 5-year survival rate | P Value | |
| Category | (%) | (%) | |
| Age (yrs) | 0.054 | ||
| <65 | 47 (43.5) | 72.4 | |
| ≥65 | 61 (56.5) | 53.6 | |
| Gender | 0.296 | ||
| Men | 55 (50.9) | 57.4 | |
| Women | 53 (49.1) | 65.9 | |
| Histological typea | |||
| pap, well, mod | 68 (63) | 67.7 | 0.226 |
| por, sig | 19 (17.6) | 48.8 | |
| muc | 21 (19.4) | 60.3 | |
| Tumor depthb | 0.066 | ||
| m, sm, mp | 26 (24.1) | 84 | |
| ss, se, si | 82 (75.9) | 57.6 | |
| Lymph node metastasisc | 0.04 | ||
| Negative | 55 (67.9) | 76.1 | |
| Positive | 26 (32.1) | 47.7 | |
| Lymphatic invasion | 0.02 | ||
| Negative | 56 (51.9) | 77.6 | |
| Positive | 52 (48.1) | 47 | |
| Venous invasion | <0.001 | ||
| Negative | 75 (69.4) | 73.7 | |
| Positive | 33 (30.6) | 35.4 | |
| Curabilityd | <0.001 | ||
| Curative resection | 64 (61) | 83 | |
| Non-curative resection | 41 (39) | 28.5 | |
| MUC1 | 0.626 | ||
| Negative | 57 (52.8) | 63.1 | |
| Positive | 51 (47.2) | 62 | |
| MUC2 | 0.072 | ||
| Negative | 31 (28.7) | 51.3 | |
| Positive | 77 (71.3) | 66.5 | |
| MUC3 | 0.004 | ||
| Negative | 88 (81.5) | 69.1 | |
| Positive | 20 (18.5) | 38.8 | |
| MUC4 | 0.467 | ||
| Negative | 7 (6.5) | 47.6 | |
| Positive | 101 (93.5) | 63.4 | |
| MUC5AC | 0.433 | ||
| Negative | 54 (50) | 59.1 | |
| Positive | 54 (50) | 66.1 | |
| MUC6 | 0.698 | ||
| Negative | 103 (95.4) | 61.6 | |
| Positive | 5 (4.6) | 75 | |
| MUC16 | 0.061 | ||
| Negative | 90 (83.3) | 65.4 | |
| Positive | 18 (16.7) | 48.1 | |
| MUC17 | 0.5 | ||
| Negative | 15 (13.9) | 67.5 | |
| Positive | 93 (86.1) | 61.9 |
a
pap, papillary adenocarcinoma; well, well differentiated adenocarcinoma; mod, moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma; por, poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma; sig, signet-ring cell carcinoma; muc, mucinous carcinoma.
b
m, mucosa; sm, submucosa; mp, muscularis propria; ss, subserosa, se, serosa; si, invasion to other organ.
c
27 cases without lymph node dissection were excluded.
d
3 cases with unknown details regarding curative or non-curative resection were excluded.