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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 25.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2018 May 8;164(2):333–343. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2018.03.020

Table 1.

Patient characteristics and outcomes according to embryonal tumor type.

n NBL n = 101 WT n = 67 RMS n = 10 HBL n = 23 Combined n = 201 P value
Age at diagnosis (months) 201 21 [8, 51] 42 [20, 53] 30.5 [19, 64] 18 [7, 25] 28 [12, 51] < .001
Sex
 Male 201 52% (52) 36% (24) 50% (5) 577% (13) 47% (94) .168
 Female 49% (49) 64% (43) 50% (5) 44% (10) 53% (107)
Race
 White, non-Hispanic 201 77% (78) 69% (46) 90% (9) 74% (17) 75% (150) .708
 White, Hispanic 3% (3) 8% (5) 10% (1) (1) 5% (10)
 Black 13% (13) 16% (11) (0) (3) 13% (27)
 Asian 3% (3) (0) (0) (1) (4)
 Other 4% (4) 8% (5) (0) (1) 5% (10)
Tumor volume
 Diagnosis (mL) 200 140.1 [30.5, 326.2] 503.4 [240, 746] 59.2 [30.2, 289.3] 252.2 [133.9, 532] 215.0 [42.9, 546.0] < .001
 Resection (mL)* 174 40.1 [11.3, 124.8] 438.0 [115.2, 705.8] 18.9 [4.5, 29.1] 43.1 [34.6, 153.8] 84.0 [20.4, 372.5] < .001
Timing of resection*
 Upfront 174 48% (40) 82% (54) (1) 56% (10) 60% (105) < .001
 After neoadjuvant 52% (44) 18% (12) 83% (5) 44% (8) 40% (69)
Resection approach
 Open TV >100 mL 201 23% (23) 75% (50) (1) 35% (8) 41% (82) < .001
 Open TV <100 mL 41% (41) 21% (14) 30% (3) 44% (10) 34% (68)
 MIS 20% (20) (2) 20% (2) (0) 12% (24)
 No resection 17% (17) (1) 40% (4) 22% (5) 13% (27)
Margin status*
 Negative 158 36% (25) 77% (50) 40% (2) 94% (17) 60% (94) < .001
 Positive 64% (45) 23% (15) 60% (3) (1) 41% (64)
Relapse at 5 years
 No 108 67% (37) 83% (30) 86% (6) 100% (10) 77% (83) .072
 Yes 33% (18) 17% (6) (1) (0) 23% (25)
Survival at 5 years
 Alive 117 70% (41) 94% (34) 75% (6) 72% (10) 78% (91) .037
 Dead 31% (18) (2) 25% (2) 29% (4) 22% (26)

NBL, neuroblastoma; WT, Wilms tumor; RMS, rhabdomyosarcoma; HBL, hepatoblastoma; TV, tumor volume.

*

Includes resected tumors only (84 NBL, 66 WT, 6 RMS, 18 HBL).