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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2018 Jun;28(5):915–924. doi: 10.1097/IGC.0000000000001263

Table 3.

Comparison of women under 45 years of age with stage I disease who had or had not undergone fertility preservation (N=76)

Variable Fertility Preservation p*
No Yes
44 32

Center
 MSK 3 (7%) 6 (19%) 0.013
 GRCC 33 (75%) 26 (81%)
 DEN 8 (18%) 0 (0%)

Age at Diagnosis
 Median 38 26 <0.001
 Range 17–45 15–40

Smoker (6 missing)
 Yes 10 (25%) 8 (27%) 1

Capsule Rupture (2 missing)
 Yes 13 (30%) 16 (52%) 0.091

Cytology**
 Yes 41 (93%) 32 (100%)
Positive Cytology (1 missing)**
 Yes 4 (10%) 0 (0%)

Appendectomy (3 missing)
 Yes 35 (85%) 27 (84%) 1

Omentectomy**
 Yes 41 (93%) 31 (97%)

Pelvic Lymphadenectomy (1 missing)
 Yes 17 (39%) 13 (41%) 1
 Median 13 14 0.967
 Range 5–33 1–34
Para-aortic Lymphadenectomy (1 missing)
 Yes 15 (34%) 16 (50%) 0.237
 Median 13 8.5 0.1
 Range 2–42 2–29

Grade (20 missing)**
 G1 22 (69%) 18 (75%) 0.767
 G2/G3 10 (31%) 6 (25%)

Chemotherapy***
 Yes 14 (39%) 6 (19%) 0.109
 Median Number of Cycles 6 5 0.175
 Range 4–8 3–9
Chemotherapy Regimen Type***
 Gynecologic 11 (79%) 4 (67%) 0.613
 Gastrointestinal 3 (21%) 2 (33%)

Upper GI Endoscopy***
 Yes 8 (22%) 6 (19%) 0.722
Lower GI Endoscopy***
 Yes 11 (31%) 4 (12.5%) 0.087
Combined Upper and Lower GI Endoscopy***
 Yes 12 (33%) 6 (19%) 0.271

CA125 >35 U/mL*** (24 missing)
 Yes 8 (35%) 5 (24%) 0.518

Tumor Size, cm*** (10 missing)
 Median 13 15 0.533
 Range 8–30 4.5–36

GCCR, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus; DEN, Rigshospitalet in Denmark; MSK = Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; GI = gastrointestinal

*

p values were obtained using the Wilcoxon rank sum test for continuous variables and the Fisher exact test for categorical variables

**

A p value is not provided if there were less than 5 patients within a group.

***

MSK and GRCC data available (N=68)