TABLE 1.
Patient characteristics
| Patient characteristic |
Surgery |
Nonsurgery |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| (Col percent in parentheses) | N = 81 (59%) | N = 56 (41%) | Test of equalitya |
| Age | (W) | ||
| Median | 61 | 61 | P = 0.59 |
| Range | 37-83 | 56-86 | |
| Sex | (F) | ||
| Male | 69 (85) | 44 (79) | P = 0.36 |
| Female | 12 (15) | 12 (21) | |
| Smoking historyb | (F) | ||
| No | 5 (7) | 4 (7) | P = 1.0 |
| Yes | 71 (93) | 51 (93) | |
| Alcohol historyc | (F) | ||
| No | 11 (14) | 6 (11) | P = 0.79 |
| Yes | 65 (86) | 47 (89) | |
| Year of treatment | (CA) | ||
| 1988-2000 | 31 (38) | 1 (2) | P = 0.002 |
| 2001-2007 | 22 (7) | 33 (59) | |
| 2008-2014 | 28 (35) | 22 (39) | |
| Clinical T stage | (CA) | ||
| 1 | 1 (1) | 3 (5) | P < 0.0001 |
| 2 | 10 (12) | 16 (29) | |
| 3 | 23 (28) | 24 (43) | |
| 4 | 47 (58) | 13 (23) | |
| Clinical N stage | (CA) | ||
| 0 | 22 (27) | 19 (34) | P = 1.0 |
| 1 | 21 (26) | 9 (16) | |
| 2 | 33 (41) | 23 (41) | |
| 3 | 5 (6) | 5 (9) | |
a
W, Wilcoxon Test; F, Fishers Exact Test; CA, Cochran-Armitage Trend Test.
b
Six cases were missing smoking history.
c
Eight cases were missing alcohol history.