Table 1.
Characteristics of patients with gastric neuroendocrine tumours
| Character | n | % |
| Sample size | 315 | 100 |
| Age (years) | ||
| <60 | 140 | 44.4 |
| ≥60 | 175 | 55.6 |
| Sex | ||
| Male | 160 | 50.8 |
| Female | 155 | 49.2 |
| Race | ||
| White | 224 | 71.1 |
| Black | 55 | 17.5 |
| Others | 36 | 11.4 |
| Marital status | ||
| Married | 182 | 57.8 |
| Unmarried | 56 | 17.8 |
| Others | 66 | 21.0 |
| Unknown | 11 | 3.5 |
| Tumour site | ||
| Cardia/fundus | 63 | 20.0 |
| Greater curvature/lesser curvature/body | 110 | 34.9 |
| Pylorus/antrum | 74 | 23.5 |
| Others | 68 | 21.6 |
| Tumour size (cm) | ||
| ≤5 | 209 | 66.3 |
| >5 | 77 | 24.4 |
| Unknown | 29 | 9.2 |
| Differentiation | ||
| Well/moderate | 150 | 47.6 |
| Poor/undifferentiated | 110 | 34.9 |
| Unknown | 55 | 17.5 |
| T staging | ||
| TX | 19 | 6.0 |
| T1 | 54 | 17.1 |
| T2 | 131 | 41.6 |
| T3 | 63 | 20.0 |
| T4 | 48 | 15.2 |
| N staging | ||
| N0 | 150 | 47.6 |
| N1 | 165 | 52.4 |
| M staging | ||
| M0 | 268 | 85.1 |
| M1 | 47 | 14.9 |
| Surgery | ||
| Performed | 306 | 97.1 |
| Not performed | 9 | 2.9 |
| Chemotherapy | ||
| Performed | 65 | 20.6 |
| No/Unknown | 250 | 79.4 |
| Radiotherapy | ||
| Performed | 33 | 10.5 |
| Not performed | 282 | 89.5 |