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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2016 Dec 2;123(8):1372–1381. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30463

Table 3. Demographics, primary tumor features, and clinical outcomes of melanoma patients with TP53 or BRAFNon-V600 mutations.

Variable All (N=926)

TP53 mutant ND TP53 P value BRAFNon-V600 mutant ND BRAFNon-V600 P value
No. of Patients (%) 180 (19.4%) 746 (80.6%) 60 (6.5%) 866 (93.5%)
Median Age (range) 58 (12-89) 56 (13-94) 0.019 60 (29-89) 56 (12-94) 0.005
Gender (%) 0.052 0.88
Male 132 (21.2%) 492 (78.8%) 41 (6.6%) 583 (93.4%)
Female 48 (15.9%) 254 (84.1%) 19 (6.3%) 283 (93.7%)
Primary site (%) 0.0001 0.38
Trunk 54 (15.9%) 285 (84.1%) 21 (6.2%) 318 (93.8%)
Extremity 38 (14.8%) 218 (85.2%) 12 (4.7%) 244 (95.3%)
Head and neck 87 (27.4%) 230 (72.6%) 26 (8.2%) 291 (91.8%)
Other 1 (7.1%) 13 (92.9%) 1 (7.1%) 13 (92.9%)
Breslow thickness (mean) 3.31mm 3.35mm 0.9 2.9mm 3.38mm 0.32
Ulceration (%) 0.9 0.63
Yes 47 (18.7%) 205 (81.3%) 18 (7.1%) 234 (92.9%)
No 80 (19.2%) 337 (80.8%) 25 (6.0%) 392 (94.0%)
Not available 53 (20.6%) 204 (79.4%) 17 (6.6%) 240 (93.4%)

Patients with stage IV N=531

No. of Patients (%) 107 (20.1%) 424 (79.9%) 41 (7.7%) 490 (92.3%)
M stage (%) 0.5 0.56
M1a 5 (15.2%) 28 (84.8%) 1 (3.0%) 32 (97.0%)
M1b 22 (23.9%) 70 (76.1%) 8 (8.7%) 84 (91.3%)
M1c 80 (19.7%) 326 (80.3%) 32 (7.9%) 374 (92.1%)
LDH at stage IV 0.6 0.3
Elevated (%) 57 (19.3%) 239 (80.7%) 26 (8.8%) 270 (91.2%)
WNL (%) 46 (20.4%) 180 (79.6%) 14 (5.9%) 212 (94.1%)
Missing (%) 4 (44.4%) 5 (55.6%) 1 (11.1%) 8 (88.9%)

Patients with stage IV (tested within 12 mo) N=417

Median OS from stage IV (Months, 95% CI) 18.8 (14.0-23.6) 15.3 (13.4-17.2) 0.039 17.9 (14.7-17.9) 16.1 (14.3-17.9) 0.53

CI: confidence interval, LDH: lactate dehydrogenase, No.: Number, OS: overall survival, WNL: within normal limit, ND: not detected mutation