Table 3.
Stratification of Outcome with Respect to Effect Modifiers
| Variables | Outcome |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete Response | Partial Response | No Response | Progression | Total | P-value | |
| Age groups | ||||||
| <45 years | 3 | 24 | 2 | 16 | 45 | 0.021 |
| =>45 years | 9 | 38 | 2 | 6 | 55 | |
| Gender | ||||||
| male | 12 | 43 | 1 | 21 | 77 | 0.001 |
| female | 0 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 23 | |
| Primary diagnosis | ||||||
| Lip | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Buccal Mucosa | 6 | 28 | 0 | 13 | 47 | |
| Tongue | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 19 | |
| Nasopharyngeal | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0.001 |
| Larynx | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Hypophyanx | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |
| Histology | ||||||
| Well Differentiated | 3 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 25 | 0.001 |
| Moderately differentiated | 9 | 38 | 0 | 11 | 58 | |
| Poorly differentiated | 0 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 17 | |
| Clinical Stage | ||||||
| III | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.466 |
| IV | 12 | 58 | 4 | 22 | 96 | |
| Treatment | ||||||
| CCRT | 12 | 45 | 3 | 5 | 65 | |
| Surgery | 0 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 0.001 |
| Best supportive care | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 15 | |