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Published in final edited form as: Clin Lung Cancer. 2019 Jun 14;20(6):477–483. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2019.06.005

Table 6:

Overall and cause-specific survival of adults aged 20 years and older diagnosed with thymus cancer in California by stage at diagnosis, 1988-2015.

Stage at
Diagnosis
Overall Survival Cause-Specific Survival
First Course of Treatment HR (95% CI) P-Value SHR (95% CI) P-Value
Localized No Treatment Reference Reference
Chemotherapy and/or Radiation 1.62 (0.61, 4.26) 0.3303 0.80 (0.15, 4.27) 0.7903
Surgery Only 0.28 (0.15, 0.53) 0.0001* 0.08 (0.02, 0.30) 0.0002*
Surgery and Single Modality 0.37 (0.19, 0.72) 0.0038* 0.08 (0.02, 0.34) 0.0008*
Surgery, Chemotherapy, and Radiation 0.48 (0.18, 1.32) 0.1559 0.97 (0.23, 4.12) 0.9713
Regional No Treatment Reference Reference
Chemotherapy and/or Radiation 0.58 (0.33, 1.03) 0.0613 0.38 (0.17, 0.89) 0.0260*
Surgery Only 0.34 (0.19, 0.58) <0.0001* 0.14 (0.06, 0.34) <0.0001*
Surgery and Single Modality 0.34 (0.20, 0.58) <0.0001* 0.24 (0.11, 0.53) 0.0004*
Surgery, Chemotherapy, and Radiation 0.42 (0.24, 0.74) 0.0027* 0.30 (0.13, 0.68) 0.0041*
Remote No Treatment Reference Reference
Chemotherapy and/or Radiation 0.94 (0.62, 1.42) 0.7666 1.40 (0.74, 2.67) 0.2994
Surgery Only 0.50 (0.27, 0.93) 0.0278* 1.01 (0.41, 2.48) 0.9917
Surgery and Single Modality 0.43 (0.26, 0.69) 0.0006* 0.65 (0.32, 1.31) 0.2243
Surgery, Chemotherapy, and Radiation 0.40 (0.24, 0.67) 0.0004* 0.75 (0.37, 1.52) 0.4256
*

Statistically significant

Abbreviations: HR=hazard ratio, SHR=sub-distribution hazard ratio, CI=confidence interval Estimates are adjusted for sex, age at diagnosis, race/ethnicity, neighborhood socioeconomic status, and histology type.