Characteristics of patients based on the stage
Variable | Total (n = 946) | Stage II (n = 640) | Stage III (n = 306) | P-value | |||||
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Age (mean ± SD) | 58.5 ± 10.71 | 58.07 ± 10.86 | 59.28 ± 10.35 | 0.102 | |||||
Female (n, %) | 429 (45.3%) | 282 (44.1%) | 147 (48%) | 0.264 | |||||
Height (cm, mean ± SD) | 166.3 ± 10.46 | 166.33 ± 10.62 | 166.24 ± 10.15 | 0.90 | |||||
Removed LNs (mean ± SD) | 15.88 ± 9.49 | 16.06 ± 9.69 | 15.49 ± 9.06 | 0.381 | |||||
Involved LNs (mean ± SD) | 0.89 ± 2.91 | 1 ± 2.84 | 1 ± 3.04 | 0.10 | |||||
Grading (n, %) | |||||||||
1 | 160 (16.9) | 105 (16.4) | 55 (18.0) | 0.413 | |||||
2 | 316 (33.4) | 205 (32.0) | 11 (36.3) | ||||||
3 | 282 (29.8) | 197 (30.8) | 85 (27.8) | ||||||
4 | 188 (19.9) | 133 (20.8) | 55 (18.0) |
The authors express their gratitude towards the staff members of Seyyed-Al-Shohada hospital for their valuable assistance in locating and reviewing the patients’ charts throughout the study. The authors also thank Mr. Nariman Khorsandiardebili for his technical assistance (writing service) in editing the manuscript.
RMR and FMR: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. EM and SM: Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. MT: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. AE: Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. AN: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. SFH: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. All authors read and approved the submitted version.
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
The Isfahan University of Medical Sciences Review Board granted ethical approval (No. IR.MUI.REC.1395.2.228) for this study, which complied with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.
Informed consent to publication was obtained from relevant participants.
Data and materials are available upon request from the corresponding author (Sayyideh Forough Hosseini, drhosseini.forough@gmail.com).
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