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Table 1 Clinical features of the included patients with PDA

From: Comparative effectiveness of primary tumor resection in patients with stage III pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Variable

Before PSM

After PSM

None (n = 3770)

PTR (n = 552)

P value

None (n = 720)

PTR (n = 240)

P value

Age (years)

66.7 ± 11.3

64.6 ± 10.5

< 0.001

67.4 ± 11.1

67.2 ± 10.2

0.777

Sex

  

0.510

  

0.911

 Female

1887 (50.1%)

268 (48.6%)

 

361 (50.1%)

122 (50.8%)

 

 Male

1883 (49.9%)

284 (51.4%)

 

359 (49.9%)

118 (49.2%)

 

Race

  

0.528

  

0.161

 White

2968 (78.7%)

445 (80.6%)

 

563 (78.2%)

197 (82.1%)

 

 Black

463 (12.3%)

59 (10.7%)

 

93 (12.9%)

20 (8.3%)

 

 Other

339 (9.0%)

48 (8.7%)

 

64 (8.9%)

23 (9.6%)

 

Primary tumor site in pancreas

  

< 0.001

  

0.463

 Head

2672 (70.9%)

438 (79.3%)

 

501 (69.6%)

173 (72.1%)

 

 Body and tail

1080 (28.6%)

116 (19.2%)

 

219 (30.4%)

67 (27.9%)

 

Tumor size (mm)

41.0 ± 15.4

38.5 ± 16.3

< 0.001

44.9 ± 16.7

45.6 ± 18.6

0.558

Tumor differentiation

  

< 0.001

  

0.197

 I

178 (4.7%)

52 (9.4%)

 

57 (7.9%)

17 (7.1%)

 

 II

402 (10.7%)

223 (40.4%)

 

153 (21.2%)

56 (23.3%)

 

 III

421 (11.2%)

163 (29.5%)

 

168 (23.3%)

53 (22.1%)

 

 IV

26 (0.7%)

3 (0.5%)

 

1 (0.1%)

3 (1.2%)

 

Chemotherapy

  

0.272

  

0.228

 No/unknown

2960 (78.5%)

422 (76.4%)

 

608 (84.4%)

194 (80.8%)

 

 Yes

810 (21.5%)

130 (23.6%)

 

112 (15.6%)

46 (19.2%)

 
  1. Data are shown as mean ± SD or n (%). PTR, primary tumor resection. Tumor differentiation: I, well-differentiated; II, moderate- differentiated; III, poor-differentiated; IV, un-differentiated