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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Surg. 2015 Dec 21;222(4):480–490. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2015.12.013

Table 1.

Clinicopathologic and Treatment Factors of Patients Stratified by Receipt of Adjuvant Mitotane

Variable All patients (n = 207) No mitotane (n = 119) Mitotane (n = 88) p Value
Male 80 (39) 45 (38) 35 (39)   0.89
Age, y, mean ± SD 51.3 ± 15.2 52.8 ± 14.9 49.3 ± 15.5   0.10
BMI, kg/m2, mean ± SD 29.0 ± 8.2 29.6 ± 9.2 28.3 ± 7.0   0.34
ASA class
 1 30 (21) 16 (21) 14 (21)
 2 33 (23) 17 (22) 16 (24)
 3 68 (48) 36 (47) 32 (49)
 4 12 (8)     8 (10) 4 (6)   0.83
Hormone secretion 83 (43) 35 (32) 48 (58)   0.001*
Familial syndrome 4 (2) 2 (2) 2 (3)   1.00
Minimally invasive procedure 38 (19) 22 (19) 16 (19)   0.93
Additional organ resection 94 (48) 47 (42) 47 (55)   0.08
Intraoperative tumor rupture 19 (11) 11 (11)   8 (10)   1.00
Tumor size, cm, mean ± SD 12.1 ± 5.7 11.7 ± 5.3 12.7 ± 6.1   0.24
 T1 11 (6)   9 (8) 2 (3)   0.17
 T2 77 (41) 48 (44) 29 (36)
 T3 74 (39) 39 (36) 35 (42)
 T4 27 (14) 13 (12) 14 (18)
N1 22 (35)   9 (26) 13 (46)   0.15
M1 35 (17) 11 (9)   24 (28)   0.001*
Stage
 I 11 (6)   9 (8) 2 (2)
 II 63 (33) 41 (37) 22 (27)
 III 59 (31) 35 (32) 24 (29)
 IV 59 (31) 25 (23) 34 (42)   0.02*
R0 127 (69)   76 (72) 51 (65)   0.58
R1 47 (26) 24 (23) 23 (30)
R2 10 (5)   6 (6) 4 (5)
Postoperative adrenal insufficiency 43 (25) 17 (18) 26 (34)   0.02*
Complication 91 (56) 47 (52) 44 (60)   0.44
Adjuvant radiation 18 (10) 5 (5) 13 (17)   0.01*
Adjuvant chemotherapy 38 (19) 6 (5) 32 (37) <0.001*
Death 94 (46) 53 (45) 41 (47)   0.86
Recurrence 97 (59) 53 (55) 44 (64)   0.43
Local recurrence 45 (28) 24 (26) 21 (30)   0.61
Distant recurrence 69 (42) 35 (37) 34 (49)   0.17

Values are n (%) unless otherwise noted.

*

Significant.

ASA, American Society of Anesthesiologists; BMI, body mass index; R0, microscopically negative margin; R1, microscopically positive margin; R2, grossly positive margin.