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Table 1 Testicular cancer patient characteristics and clinicopathologic features for the full cohort and among different racial groups

From: Racial differences in testicular cancer in the United States: descriptive epidemiology

 

Total (n = 56,898)

NHW (n = 42,556)

HW (n = 9282)

Black (n = 1602)

API (n = 2607)

P-value

Marital status

     

< 0.001

 Single

23,707(42.2)

16,341(38.4)

5121(55.2)

877(54.7)

1298(49.8)

 

 Married

26,663(47.5)

21,624(50.8)

3383(36.5)

516(32.2)

1080(41.4)

 

 Separated/D/W

3518(6.3)

2850(6.7)

425(4.6)

118(7.4)

118(4.5)

 

Age group

     

< 0.001

 0–39

38,408(68.4)

27,663(65.0)

7731(83.3)

1051(65.6)

1846(70.8)

 

 40–64

15,309(27.2)

12,293(30.1)

1374(14.8)

483(30.1)

609(23.4)

 

 65+

2475(4.4)

1766(4.8)

177(1.9)

68(4.2)

152(5.8)

 

Age at diagnosis

35.9 ± 17.2

37.0 ± 15.1

30.7 ± 15.3

36.2 ± 14.2

35.1 ± 14.8

< 0.001

Survival time

109.0

124.0

67.0

84.5

85.0

< 0.001

(months)

(41.0,191.0)

(51.0,214.0)

(21.0,135.0)

(27.5161.0)

(29.0,174.0)

 

Subtype

     

< 0.001

 Seminomas

29,423(52.4)

23,018(54.1)

4165(44.9)

835(52.1)

1321(50.7)

 

 Teratoma

13,947(24.8)

9945(23.4)

3013(32.5)

320(20.0)

635(24.4)

 

 ECs

6447(11.5)

5079(11.9)

977(10.5)

121(7.6)

256(9.8)

 

 Non-seminomas

1521(2.7)

1010(2.4)

366(3.9)

60(3.8)

81(3.1)

 

 Others

4854(8.6)

3504(8.)

761(8.2)

266(16.6)

314(12.0)

 

Location

     

< 0.001

 Undescended testis

969(1.7)

611(1.4)

208(2.2)

61(3.8)

88(3.4)

 

 Descended testis

19,451(34.6)

13,699(32.2)

4378(47.2)

448(28.0)

891(34.2)

 

 Testis (NOS)

35,772(63.7)

28,246(66.4)

4696(50.6)

1093(68.2)

1628(62.5)

 

Stage

     

< 0.001

 In situ

97(0.2)

63(0.2)

22(0.2)

9(0.5)

3(0.1)

 

 Localized

36,513(65.0)

28,136(66.2)

5718(61.6)

919(57.4)

1638(62.8)

 

 Regional

10,173(18.1)

7671(18.0)

1751(18.9)

315(19.7)

415(15.9)

 

 Distant

6472(11.5)

4388(10.3)

1486(16.0)

244(15.3)

340(13.0)

 

Tumor size (mm)

45.7 ± 36.3

42.3 ± 33.2

52.4 ± 41.2

57.4 ± 44.0

53.0 ± 42.5

< 0.001

Regional nodes

     

< 0.001

 All nodes negative

7693(14.4)

5948(14.6)

1124(13.1)

253(16.8)

360(14.8)

 

≥1 nodes positive

45,676(85.6)

34,797(85.4)

7436(86.9)

1253(83.2)

2072(85.2)

 

Treatment

     

< 0.001

 Surgery

22,848(40.2)

16,710(39.3)

3914(42.2)

638(39.8)

1021(39.2)

 

 CS

15,542(27.3)

11,152(26.2)

3073(33.1)

452(28.2)

741(28.4)

 

 RS

15,176(26.7)

12,382(29.1)

1693(18.2)

352(22.0)

637(24.4)

 

 CRS

1336(2.4)

970(2.3)

214(2.3)

54(3.4)

94(3.6)

 

 Chemotherapy

964(1.7)

615(1.5)

236(2.5)

53(3.3)

56(2.2)

 

 No treatment

790(1.4)

552(1.3)

114(1.2)

42(2.6)

44(1.7)

 

 Radiation

119(0.2)

97(0.2)

11(0.1)

3(0.2)

4(0.2)

 

 CR

123(0.2)

78(0.2)

27(0.3)

8(0.5)

10(0.4)

 
  1. Cancers diagnosed between 1973 and 2015 in the SEER 9 database. Data are median (interquartile range) for survival time, mean ± standard deviation for age at diagnosis and tumor size, and count (percentage) for all categorical variables.
  2. NHW non-Hispanic whites, HW Hispanic whites, API Asians and Pacific Islanders, ECs embryonal carcinomas, CS chemotherapy plus surgery, RS radiotherapy plus surgery, CRS chemotherapy plus radiotherapy plus surgery, CR chemotherapy plus radiotherapy