Table 3.
Descriptive Statistics of Extent of Resection by Treatment Combinations Among Glioblastoma Patients Who Received Surgery, NCDB 2010–2015 (n = 39 801)
| All modalities (n = 28 587) | P | Surgery + radiation (n = 2494) | P | Surgery + chemo (n = 1184) | P | Surgery only (n = 7536) | P | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longer-term survivors (n = 3385) | Routine survivors (n = 25 202) | Longer-term survivors (n = 116) | Routine survivors (n = 2378) | Longer-term survivors (n = 96) | Routine survivors (n = 1088) | Longer-term survivors (n = 374) | Routine survivors (n = 7162) | |||||
| Extent of resection, n (%) | <.001a | .008a | .624a | <.001a | ||||||||
| Biopsy | 580 (17.13) | 5024 (19.93) | 21 (18.10) | 592 (24.89) | 20 (20.83) | 242 (22.24) | 90 (24.06) | 1917 (26.77) | ||||
| Subtotal | 855 (25.26) | 7982 (31.67) | 28 (24.14) | 759 (31.92) | 25 (26.04) | 323 (29.69) | 70 (18.72) | 2179 (30.42) | ||||
| Total | 1950 (57.61) | 12 196 (48.39) | 67 (57.76) | 1027 (43.19) | 51 (53.13) | 523 (48.07) | 214 (57.22) | 3066 (42.81) |
All modalities: surgery + radiation + chemotherapy.
aChi-square test.