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Table 2 Comorbidity and tumor characteristics of patient by initial radiation treatment modality during the 6 months after diagnosis

From: Type and dose of radiotherapy used for initial treatment of non-metastatic prostate cancer

Comorbidity/tumor characteristics

EBRT alone (%)*

EBRT+HT (%)*

EBRT+BT (%)*

EBRT+BT+HT (%)*

BT alone (%)*

BT+HT (%)*

RT (Type unknown)±HT (%)*

Total

24.5

30.4

10.5

7.1

17.9

8.2

1.4

Piccirillo comorbidity score (nw = 8718, p = 0.5183)

       

  None

28.5

26.6

31.0

24.6

33.9

26.7

35.3

  Mild

54.4

54.9

55.0

60.2

52.9

60.9

49.3

  Moderate

12.9

14.8

10.5

10.6

10.1

9.1

9.6

  Severe

4.2

3.7

3.5

4.6

3.1

3.3

5.8

PSA (ng/ml) (nw = 8822, p < 0.0001)

       

  <10

76.3

52.2

83.0

60.9

92.7

86.3

59.0

  10–20

20.5

25.7

13.6

25.8

5.9

10.1

27.0

  >20

3.2

22.1

3.4

13.3

1.4

3.6

14.0

Clinical T stage (nw = 8941, p < 0.0001)

       

  Tx-T0

0.8

0.9

0.0

0.3

0.1

0.4

0.9

  T1

70.5

53.0

66.3

49.4

77.0

79.2

46.7

  T2

27.4

39.2

32.4

45.5

22.9

20.4

44.1

  T3-T4

1.3

6.9

1.3

4.8

0.0

0.0

8.3

Gleason score (nw = 8879, p < 0.0001)

       

  2–6

66.7

32.3

56.4

32.6

84.6

76.7

55.1

  7

29.5

42.2

38.0

46.0

14.0

20.7

27.9

  8–10

3.8

25.5

5.6

21.4

1.4

2.6

17.0

Recurrence risk group (nw = 8946, p < 0.0001)

       

  LR

46.7

16.5

43.9

15.0

75.4

62.7

31.2

  IR

46.1

41.8

47.3

56.7

21.8

31.4

38.8

  HR

7.2

41.7

8.8

28.3

2.8

5.9

30.0

  1. LR, low risk group; IR, intermediate risk group; HR, high/very high risk group; BT, brachytherapy; EBRT, external beam radiotherapy; HT, hormone therapy.
  2. RT, radiotherapy.
  3. (*) Column percentages based on weighted number of patients, except the first row (Total) which was a row percentage.
  4. (†) p-values (Chi-square test to measure of association between each of comorbidity/tumor characteristics variables and initial treatment modality).