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. 2020 Aug 21;12(4):303–310. doi: 10.5114/jcb.2020.98108

Table 2.

Demographic data comparison for all patients

Characteristic Brachytherapy % Enucleation % p-value
Age (≥ 60 years) 3,069 56 871 55 0.403
Sex (male) 2,764 50 910 57 < 0.001*
Diagnosis after 2010 2,296 42 645 40 0.354
Academic center 3,621 66 1,076 68 0.224
White race 5,298 96 1,503 94 < 0.001*
Uninsured 160 3 113 7 < 0.001*
Private 2,944 54 709 45 < 0.001*
Government 2,310 42 716 45 0.039*
High school dropout > 21% 702 13 235 15 0.041*
Median income < $38,000 861 16 283 18 0.046*
Population < 250,000 1,903 35 592 37 0.063
Distance to treatment > 60 mi 2,867 52 691 43 < 0.001*
Charlson/Deyo score ≥ 1 938 17 221 14 0.002*
Extraocular extension 171 3 237 15 < 0.001*
Ciliary body 388 7 243 15 < 0.001*
COMS small 1,183 22 331 21 0.518
COMS medium 3,641 66 612 38 < 0.001*
COMS large 677 12 652 41 < 0.001*
Total 5,501 78 1,595 22 7,096
*

Denotes significance