Table 1:
Baseline demographic and disease-specific characteristics, stratified by treatment strategy
| Characteristics | Surgical approach |
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|---|---|---|---|
| No surgery (n = 10 258) | Surgery (n = 7120) | P-value | |
| Age (years) | 70 (62, 77) | 67 (58, 73) | <0.001 |
| Sex | |||
| Female | 3820 (37.2%) | 2734 (38.4%) | 0.13 |
| Male | 6438 (62.8%) | 4386 (61.6%) | |
| Race | |||
| White | 8315 (81.1%) | 6049 (85%) | <0.001 |
| Black | 1415 (13.8%) | 643 (9%) | |
| Other | 528 (5.1%) | 428 (6%) | |
| Marital status | |||
| Married | 5242 (51.1%) | 4414 (62%) | <0.001 |
| Not married | 4657 (45.4%) | 2485 (34.9%) | |
| Unknown | 359 (3.5%) | 221 (3.1%) | |
| N-stage | |||
| 0 | 3963 (38.6%) | 4634 (65.1%) | <0.001 |
| 1 | 953 (9.3%) | 1351 (19%) | |
| 2 | 5342 (52.1%) | 1135 (15.9%) | |
| Radiation Tx | 7342 (73.1%) | 3290 (47.3%) | <0.001 |