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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of 172 patients with nonmucinous appendiceal adenocarcinoma

From: Retrospective study of nonmucinous appendiceal adenocarcinomas: role of systemic chemotherapy and cytoreductive surgery

Characteristic

Number of patients (%)

Median age at diagnosis

52.9 years (range: 26–82)

Sex

 Male

86/172 (50)

 Female

86/172 (50)

Clinical stage at diagnosis

 I

3/172 (2)

 II

57/172 (33)

 III

26/172 (15)

 IV

86/172 (50)

Histological grade

 Well differentiated

0/172 (0)

 Moderately differentiated

96/172 (56)

 Poorly differentiated

76/172 (44)

Race/ethnicity

 White

150/172 (87)

 Hispanic

7/172 (4)

 Black

12/172 (7)

 Asian

3/172 (2)

Presence of signet ring cells

42/172 (24)

Presence of goblet cells

13/172 (8)

Presence of metastatic diseasea

127/172 (74)

Sites of metastatic disease

 Peritoneal only

69/127 (54)

 Extraperitoneal only

13/127 (10)

 Peritoneal + extraperitoneal

45/127 (35)

CRS for metastatic disease

31/127 (24)

 Complete (CC-0/1)

18/31 (58)

 Incomplete (≥ CC-2)

13/31 (42)

  1. aMetastatic disease categories include patients with stage IV disease at initial presentation and those with stage I-III disease who developed metastatic disease later in the clinical course.
  2. Abbreviations: CRS cytoreductive surgery, CC completeness of cytoreduction