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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Jan 11;25(8):2656–2663. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-3101

TABLE 2.

Discordance between ICD-O-3 Histological Diagnosis and WHO Grade in Diffuse Gliomas

ICD-O-3
Histology
Have
WHO
grade (n)
WHO
grade
n % Age (years) Overall Survival (months)
Median IQR p-
value*
5 yr-
OS
95% CI p-
value**
Diffuse OG 3,176 I 51 1.6 36 (22-52) <0.001 87.2 (71.9-94.5) <0.001
II 2,742 86.3 41 (32-51) 88.1 (86.1-89.8)
III 241 7.6 47 (36-57) 61.2 (51.2-69.8)
IV 142 4.5 56 (46-66) 31.2 (22.5-40.2)
Anaplastic OG 1,512 I 2 0.1 46 (42-50) 0.01 no observations <0.001
II 25 1.7 39 (28-54) 65.3 (34.6-84.3)
III 1,361 90.0 48 (38-58) 69.6 (65.9-72.9)
IV 124 8.2 51 (41-60) 37.9 (25.0-50.7)
Diffuse AC 4,182 I 170 4.1 31 (18-49) <0.001 77.5 (68.8-84.1) <0.001
II 2,748 65.7 40 (29-55) 63.8 (61.4-66.0)
III 760 18.2 52 (38-64) 29.3 (25.7-32.9)
IV 504 12.1 62 (52-70) 9.8 (7.1-13.0)
Anaplastic AC 5,628 I 5 0.1 41 (34-72) <0.001 53.3 (6.8-86.3) <0.001
II 51 0.9 39 (27-58) 57.1 (36.1-73.5)
III 5,090 90.4 50 (35-64) 33.3 (31.5-35.2)
IV 482 8.6 54 (40-67) 18.8 (14.4-23.7)
Glioblastoma 40,333 I 83 0.2 62 (51-71) 0.008 10.6 (2.7-24.9) 0.08
II 66 0.2 60 (46-69) 10.8 (2.5-26.0)
III 356 0.9 62 (53-72) 9.6 (5.7-14.5)
IV 39,828 98.7 62 (54-71) 7.6 (7.1-8.0)
**

p-value from a log-rank test using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis

*

p-value from an ANOVA test;

OG: oligodendroglioma, AC: astrocytoma, IQR: interquartile range, OS: overall survival, CI: confidence interval;