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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 4.
Published in final edited form as: Head Neck. 2013 Oct 7;36(5):694–701. doi: 10.1002/hed.23350

TABLE 2.

Overall and disease-specific survival rates for infiltrating salivary duct carcinoma cases reported in Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database.

DSS rate (%)*
Factor Median OS, mo Median DSS, mo 1 y 2 y 3 y 5 y 10 y
All salivary duct carcinoma (n = 228) 79 >120 91 82 78 64 56
Age at diagnosis, y
 ≤50 (n = 33) >120 >120 100 94 94 86 78
 51–60 (n = 45) 58 >120 95 85 77 54 54
 61–70 (n = 65) 50 59 85 79 72 49 35
 >70 (n = 85) 74 >120 89 78 76 70 62
p < .001 p = .01
Sex
 Male (n = 166) 80 >120 92 84 79 64 56
 Female (n = 62) 80 >120 86 79 77 62 58
p = .90 p = .77
Primary site
 Parotid only (n = 163) 78 >120 91 82 77 62 58
 Submandibular only (n = 33) 45 58 94 80 76 48 35
p = .57 p = .20
Tumor grade
 Well or moderately differentiated (n = 29) >120 >120 89 89 89 89 71
 Poorly or undifferentiated (n = 120) 47 56 90 79 73 47 44
p value = .02 p value = .02
Overall stage
 I or II (n = 78) >120 >120 96 91 90 84 76
 III (n = 49) 86 >120 96 88 86 67 67
 IV-A or IV-B (n = 85) 40 46 90 76 69 45 40
 IV-C (n = 13) 15 17 54 46 35 12 0
p < .001 p < .001
SEER historic stage
 Localized (n = 83) >120 >120 96 92 91 86 78
 Regional (n = 98) 51 >120 93 84 76 54 51
 Distant (n = 44) 38 40 76 60 56 29 20
p < .001 p < .001
Lymph node status
 Negative (n = 114) >120 >120 95 90 88 80 73
 Positive (n = 111) 44 48 87 74 68 44 38
p < .001 p < .001
Tumor size
 ≤2 cm (n = 85) 84 >120 94 90 86 66 55
 >2–3 cm (n = 50) 95 >120 96 88 79 75 75
 >3 cm (n = 58) 43 46 83 64 64 47 42
p value = .03 p value = .006

Abbreviations: OS, overall survival; DSS, disease-specific survival; SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results.

*

Absolute survival rates.

Median not reached at 10-year follow-up.

Based on log-rank test.