Table 1.
Patient and cancer characteristics in patients with RCC registered in the NSKCR from 2005 to 2013.
| Number of patients (%) | ||
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| Total number of patients | 8556 (100%) | |
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| Gender | Male | 5256 (61%) |
| Female | 3300 (39%) | |
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| Age at diagnosis | Median 67 yrs (Range 23–105 yrs) |
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| Stage | T0 | 3 (0%) |
| T1a | 2511 (29%) | |
| T1b | 2007 (23%) | |
| T2 | 1506 (18%) | |
| T3 | 2017 (24%) | |
| T4 | 287 (3%) | |
| Tx | 213 (2%) | |
| Missing data | 12 (0%) | |
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| Fuhrman grade∗ | G1 | 926 (12%) |
| G2 | 3496 (44%) | |
| G3 | 2072 (26%) | |
| G4 | 705 (9%) | |
| GX | 657 (8%) | |
| Missing data | 178 (2%) | |
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| Histopathology∗ | Clear cell | 6298 (78%) |
| Papillary | 957 (12%) | |
| Chromophobe | 399 (5%) | |
| Collecting duct | 33 (0.4%) | |
| Not possible to classify | 156 (2%) | |
| Other kidney cancers | 147 (2%) | |
| Missing data | 44 (1%) | |
∗Data on histopathology was not available in 522 patients.