Table 2.
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