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Table 4 Tumor stage at diagnosis of the study samples (N; percentages in parentheses)

From: Measuring prostate-specific quality of life in prostate cancer patients scheduled for radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy and reference men in Germany and Canada using the Patient Oriented Prostate Utility Scale-Psychometric (PORPUS-P)

 

German reference men [n = 988]

German PC patients with scheduled radiotherapy [n = 121]

German PC patients with scheduled radical prostatectomy [n = 371]

p-values for differences between German RT and RP patients

Canadian PC patients with scheduled radiotherapy [n = 66]

Canadian PC patients with scheduled radical prostatectomy [n = 68]

p-values for differences between Canadian RT and RP patients

Tumour stage at diagnosis

Not applicable

  

p < 0.001#

  

p = 0.008#

T1

 

28 (23.1)

2 (0.5)

 

18 (27)

21 (31)

 

T2

 

34 (28.1)

239 (64.4)

 

29 (44)

30 (44)

 

T3

 

20 (16.5)

122 (32.9)

 

14 (21)

1 (1.5)

 

T4

 

0

0

 

1 (1.5)

0

 

missing

 

39 (32.2)

8 (2.2)

 

4 (6)

16 (23.5)

 
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