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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2016 Mar 29;196(3):678–684. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2016.03.144

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics at Nephrectomy by Metastatic Status at Diagnosis and by Metastasectomy Status

Synchronous Metastasis at Diagnosis Asynchronous Metastasis at Diagnosis

All Metastasectomy No
Metastasectomy
All Metastasectomy No
Metastasectomy
Patient Characteristics N (%) N (%) N (%) P-Value N (%) N (%) N (%) P-Value
All Patients 56 (100%) 30 (100%) 26 (100%) 24 (100%) 10 (100%) 14 (100%)

Age, years - median (IQR) 54 (49, 64) 54 (47, 64) 55 (49, 63) 0.83 53 (49, 59) 52 (48, 60) 54 (49, 58) 0.97

Gender 0.33 0.10
Female 22 (39%) 10 (33%) 12 (46%) 12 (50%) 3 (30%) 9 (64%)
Male 34 (61%) 20 (67%) 14 (54%) 12 (50%) 7 (70%) 5 (36%)

Race Ethnicity 0.47 0.81
White 42 (75%) 25 (83%) 17 (65%) 17 (71%) 8 (80%) 9 (64%)
Black 2 (4%) 1 (3%) 1 (4%) 2 (8%) 0 (0%) 2 (14%)
Hispanic 10 (18%) 3 (10%) 7 (27%) 3 (13%) 1 (10%) 2 (14%)
Other 2 (4%) 1 (3%) 1 (4%) 2 (8%) 1 (10%) 1 (7%)

Smoking History 0.25 0.12
Yes 30 (55%) 14 (47%) 16 (64%) 14 (58%) 4 (40%) 10 (71%)
No 24 (44%) 15 (50%) 9 (36%) 10 (42%) 6 (60%) 4 (29%)
Unknown 1 (2%) 1 (3%) 0 (0%)

BMI, kg/m2 - median (IQR) 25 (23, 29) 25 (23, 31) 25 (22, 28) 0.20 29 (26, 36) 27 (24, 33) 31 (27, 40) 0.07

ECOG Performance Status 0.36 0.64
0 13 (23%) 6 (20%) 7 (27%) 6 (25%) 3 (30%) 3 (21%)
1 39 (70%) 23 (77%) 16 (62%) 17 (71%) 7 (70%) 10 (71%)
>=2 4 (7%) 1 (3%) 3 (12%) 1 (4%) 0 (0%) 1 (7%)

Charlson - median (IQR) 6 (6, 6) 6 (6, 6) 6 (6, 6) 0.25 3 (2, 6) 2 (2, 6) 3 (2, 6) 0.66

Pathologic T Stage 0.25 0.11
T1/T2 9 (16%) 7 (23%) 2 (8%) 6 (26%) 3 (33%) 3 (21%)
T3 39 (70%) 20 (67%) 19 (73%) 11 (48%) 6 (67%) 5 (36%)
T4 8 (14%) 3 (10%) 5 (19%) 6 (26%) 0 (0%) 6 (43%)

Clinical N Stage at
Diagnosis
0.65 >0.99
cN0 51 (91%) 28 (93%) 23 (88%) 20 (83%) 8 (80%) 12 (86%)
cN1 5 (9%) 2 (7%) 3 (12%) 4 (17%) 2 (20%) 2 (14%)

Pathologic N Stage 0.89 >0.99
pN0 16 (29%) 8 (27%) 8 (31%) 11 (46%) 4 (40%) 7 (50%)
pN1 15 (27%) 9 (30%) 6 (23%) 9 (38%) 4 (40%) 5 (36%)
pNx 25 (45%) 13 (43%) 12 (46%) 4 (17%) 2 (20%) 2 (14%)

Nephrectomy Side 0.14 0.40
Left 33 (59%) 15 (50%) 18 (69%) 17 (71%) 8 (80%) 9 (64%)
Right 23 (41%) 15 (50%) 8 (31%) 7 (29%) 2 (20%) 5 (36%)

Nephrectomy Histology >0.99 >0.99
Clear cell 45 (80%) 24 (80%) 21 (81%) 19 (79%) 8 (80%) 11 (79%)
Other 11 (20%) 6 (20%) 5 (19%) 5 (21%) 2 (20%) 3 (21%)

% Sarcomatoid 0.02 0.84
1–24 26 (50%) 20 (67%) 6 (27%) 16 (76%) 5 (63%) 11 (85%)
25–49 14 (27%) 4 (13%) 10 (45%) 1 (5%) 1 (13%) 0 (0%)
50–74 7 (13%) 3 (10%) 4 (18%) 2 (10%) 1 (13%) 1 (8%)
75–99 5 (10%) 3 (10%) 2 (9%) 2 (10%) 1 (13%) 1 (8%)

Systemic Therapy (At Any
Time)
0.36 0.02
No 9 (16%) 6 (21%) 3 (12%) 3 (13%) 3 (33%) 0 (0%)
Yes 46 (84%) 23 (79%) 23 (88%) 20 (87%) 6 (67%) 14 (100%)

P-Values are calculated using Pearson’s Chi-Square test, using Fisher’s exact calculations when needed for small sample sizes. Patients with unknown or missing values are not included in the comparison.