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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Invest Dermatol. 2021 Oct 28;142(5):1280–1290.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2021.10.009

Table 2.

Overall Survival and Progression-Free Survival by Clinical Characteristics for Patients with Vulvar Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Variable Overall survival VSCC Progression-free survival VSCC
95% CI HR p-valuea 95% CI HR p-valuea
Recurrence: Y vs. N 1.529 – 30.36 6.814 0.0118* N/A N/A N/A
Age: ≥60 vs. <60 (REF) 0.2702 – 5.298 1.196 0.8132 0.3528 – 2.887 1.009 0.9863
Stage: III vs. I 0.5904 – 22.74 3.664 0.1633 0.3452 – 3.867 1.156 0.8146
Margin (mm):<8 vs. ≥8 (REF) 0.2319 – 10.93 1.592 0.6360 0.3972 – 5.929 1.535 0.5345
Post-op chemo: N vs. Y 0.4373 – 24.92 3.301 0.2468 0.5579 – 8.255 2.146 0.2666
Post-op radiation: N vs. Y 0.4864 – 23.79 3.401 0.2173 0.6723 – 8.534 2.395 0.1778
Smoking: Y vs. N 0.2439 – 4.872 1.090 0.9100 0.2470 – 2.016 0.7056 0.5151
Focality: Multifocal vs. unifocal 0.2612 – 10.32 1.641 0.5972 1.312 – 28.38 6.103 0.0211*
LVSI: N vs. Y 0.3429 – 10.13 1.863 0.4711 0.4019 – 4.393 1.329 0.6413
LN: pos vs. neg 1.610 –160.5 16.07 0.0180* 0.3149 – 5.818 1.353 0.6842
Surgery: Wide local excision vs. vulvectomy 0.03909 – 1820 8.435 0.0151* 0.02283 – 4669 10.33 0.0064*
Nodal dissection: N vs. Y 0.5591 – 142.6 8.927 0.0003* 0.6909 –61.38 6.512 0.0001*
Re-excision: N vs. Y 0.1830 – 9.165 1.295 0.7956 0.04323 –1.553 0.2591 0.1394
Depth (mm): ≥8 vs. <8 (REF) 0.2414 – 4.792 1.076 0.9238 0.1453 – 1.306 0.4357 0.1381
Tumor size (mm):≤30 vs. >30 (REF) 0.2553 – 5.486 1.184 0.8294 0.5302 – 4.358 1.520 0.4358
History of Lichen sclerosus: N vs. Y 0.1743 – 4.965 0.9303 0.9326 0.3492 – 3.418 1.092 0.8793

Abbreviations: VSCC, vulvar squamous cell carcinoma; HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; Y, yes; N, no; N/A, not applicable; mm, millimeters; post-op, post-operative; chemo, chemotherapy; LVSI, lymphovascular space invasion; LN, lymph nodes.

Calculations were performed using the log-rank test in GraphPad Prism® version 9.0.0.

a

P-values are reported for tests of statistical significance. All comparisons were two-tailed and the alpha error was set at 5%.

*

Statistically significant.