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Table 1 Patient characteristics for the three patient groups

From: Pre-radiotherapy feeding tube identifies a poor prognostic subset of postoperative p16 positive oropharyngeal carcinoma patients

Characteristic

No feeding tube (nā€‰=ā€‰42)

Tube before RT (nā€‰=ā€‰23)

Tube during/after RT (nā€‰=ā€‰32)

p-value

Age at diagnosis

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒMedian (range) (y)

54 (32 ā€“ 73)

57 (48 ā€“ 67)

54 (37 ā€“ 72)

0.35

Gender

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒMale

40 (95.2%)

21 (91.3%)

31 (96.9%)

0.72

ā€ƒFemale

2 (4.8%)

2 (8.7%)

1 (3.1%)

Race

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒCaucasian

40 (95.2%)

22 (95.7%)

32 (100%)

0.46

ā€ƒAfrican-American

2 (4.8%)

1 (4.3%)

0 (0%)

Alcohol Use

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒRarely or Never

22 (56.4%)

13 (56.5%)

17 (53.1%)

0.51

ā€ƒOccasional

8 (20.5%)

3 (13.0%)

10 (31.3%)

ā€ƒHeavy

9 (23.1%)

7 (30.4%)

5 (15.6%)

Smoking Status

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒNever Smoker

21 (51.2%)

8 (34.8%)

9 (28.1%)

0.29

ā€ƒ<20 pack-years

5 (12.2%)

4 (17.4%)

4 (12.5%)

ā€ƒā‰„20 pack-years

15 (36.6%)

11 (47.8%)

19 (59.4%)

ACE-27 Score

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒNone/Mild

38 (95.0%)

15 (68.2%)

23 (74.2%)

0.0076

ā€ƒModerate/Severe

2 (5.0%)

7 (31.8%)

8 (25.8%)

BMI at time of tube placement

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒMedian (range)

N/A

26.5 (20.0 ā€“ 31.0)

24.5 (15.7 ā€“ 41.2)

0.12

Rate of weight loss prior to IMRT (āˆ’ lbs/mo loss; + is gain)

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒMedian (range)

āˆ’6.9 (āˆ’19.0 ā€“ +5.0)

āˆ’10.6 (āˆ’20 ā€“ +0.6)

āˆ’1.2 (āˆ’12 ā€“ +2.8)

0.36

Swallow Studies

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒAspiration

10 (76.9%)

18 (85.7%)

14 (77.8%)

0.74

ā€ƒNo aspiration

3 (23.1%)

3 (14.3%)

4 (22.2%)

  1. Abbreviations: ACE-27 Adult Comorbidity Evaluation-27.
  2. Bold p-values indicate statistical significane at p < 0.05.