Table 2.

Univariate survival results for patients diagnosed with ESTS 1991–2010, stratified by time period.

Characteristic	Proportion 5-year survival rates
	1991–1996 (n = 2122)	P value	1997–2003 (n = 5221)	P value	2004–2010 (n = 5203)	P value
Overall	0.28		0.40		0.62
Sex		0.0183*		0.0085*		0.0216*
Male	0.25		0.38		0.60
Female	0.30		0.42		0.65
Site		0.0184*		0.0020*		0.0013*
Lower limb	0.27		0.39		0.60
Upper limb	0.30		0.43		0.66
Hispanic		0.4466		0.0004*		0.0658
Non-Hispanic	0.28		0.39		0.61
Spanish-Hispanic-Latino	0.22		0.49		0.67
Radiation		0.2479		0.34		0.0011*
No	0.31		0.41		0.61
Yes	0.25		0.38		0.63
Unknown	0.37		0.44		0.61
Surgery		<0.0001*		<0.0001*		<0.0001*
No	0.07		0.09		0.14
Yes	0.30		0.42		0.66
Unknown	0.44		0.36		0.33
Marital status		<0.0001*		<0.0001*		<0.0001*
Single	0.39		0.45		0.60
Married	0.30		0.44		0.66
Other	0.15		0.24		0.50
Unknown	0.40		0.40		0.64
Age		<0.0001*		<0.0001*		<0.0001*
<30	0.62		0.66		0.67
30–59	0.48		0.55		0.72
60+	0.13		0.24		0.53
Histology		<0.0001*		<0.0001*		<0.0001*
NOS	0.23		0.29		0.45
Fibromatous	0.26		0.41		0.62
Myxomatous	NA		NA		0.64
Lipomatous	0.34		0.53		0.80
Myomatous	0.26		0.32		0.57
Synovial	0.29		0.38		0.55
All other types	0.22		0.24		0.50
Grade		<0.0001*		<0.0001*		<0.0001*
I	0.40		0.67		0.89
II	0.39		0.51		0.80
III	0.17		0.30		0.57
IV	0.17		0.26		0.48
Unknown	0.28		0.40		0.14
Metastasis		<0.0001*		<0.0001*		<0.0001*
No	0.30		0.44		0.70
Yes	0.03		0.06		0.14
Tumor size		<0.0001		<0.0001*		<0.0001*
<=5 cm	0.38		0.53		0.75
>5 cm	0.20		0.31		0.58
Unknown	0.31		0.43		0.11
County		0.6359		<0.0001*		0.1131
Metro county	0.28		0.41		0.62
Non-Metro county	0.27		0.30		0.59
Geographic region		1		<0.0001*		0.3004
Midwest	0.29		0.44		0.62
Northeast	0.27		0.28		0.61
South	0.32		0.31		0.59
West	0.26		0.44		0.63
Race		0.0719		0.0002*		0.0332*
African American	0.29		0.36		0.54
Caucasian	0.26		0.39		0.63
Other	0.37		0.47		0.60

^*Significant on a P < 0.05 level.

NOS: not otherwise specified.