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Table 1 Patients' characteristics.

From: The presence of postmenopausal bleeding as prognostic parameter in patients with endometrial cancer: a retrospective multi-center study

Parameter

Asymptomatic patients (No.[%])

Symptomatic patients (No. [%])

P

Number of patients

149

456

 

Patients with endometrioid endometrial cancer

133

410

 

Age at first diagnosis (years SD )

66.3 (10.3)

67.1 (11.2)

0.9*

Tumor stage

  

0.07†

I

100 (75.2)

286 (69.8)

 

II

9 (6.8)

40 (9.8)

 

III

15 (11.2)

71 (17.2)

 

IV

9 (6.8)

13 (3.2)

 

Tumor grade

  

0.006†

G1

74 (55.7)

170 (41.5)

 

G2

45 (33.8)

153 (37.3)

 

G3

14 (10.5)

87 (21.2)

 

Patients with follow-up information available

133

409

 

Time of follow-up (months [SD])

23.7 (24.03)

28.5 (25.76)

0.06*

Recurrence status

   

Patients with recurrent disease

14 (10.5)

55 (13.4)

0.2†

Time to recurrent disease (months [SD])

18.5 (16.9)

20.4 (17.6)

0.7*

Status at last observation

  

0.7†

Alive with no evidence of disease

115 (86.5)

341 (83.4)

 

Stable disease

0

3 (0.7)

 

Progressive disease

8 (6.0)

34 (8.3)

 

Dead as a result of disease

9 (6.8)

25 (6.1)

 

Dead as a result of other causes

1 (0.7)

6 (1.5)

 
  1. SD = standard deviation, * two sided student's t-test, † Chi squared test