Table 1 Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of respondents, SA-PCCOC registry (2010–2019)
From: Patient-reported functional outcome measures and treatment choice for prostate cancer
Variable | Treatment type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RP (n = 2810) | EBRT (n = 1011) | Brachytherapy (n = 343) | AS (n = 762) | p-value | |||||
No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||
Age, mean (sd) | 64.5 (6.9) | 71.9 (7.2) | 65.7 (7.0) | 64.8 (7.7) | |||||
Below 60 | 636 | 22.6 | 52 | 5.1 | 70 | 20.4 | 202 | 26.5 | < 0.001 |
60–64 | 639 | 22.7 | 110 | 10.9 | 70 | 20.4 | 135 | 17.7 | |
65–70 | 969 | 34.5 | 229 | 22.7 | 113 | 32.9 | 247 | 32.4 | |
Above 70 | 566 | 20.1 | 620 | 61.3 | 90 | 26.2 | 178 | 23.4 | |
Risk category | |||||||||
Low | 423 | 15.1 | 67 | 6.6 | 66 | 19.2 | 581 | 76.2 | < 0.001 |
Intermediate | 1442 | 51.3 | 339 | 33.5 | 185 | 53.9 | 77 | 10.1 | |
High | 865 | 30.8 | 578 | 57.2 | 66 | 19.2 | 8 | 1.0 | |
Missing | 80 | 2.8 | 27 | 2.7 | 26 | 7.6 | 96 | 12.6 | |
SEIFA | |||||||||
Lowest | 494 | 17.6 | 260 | 25.7 | 81 | 23.6 | 145 | 19.0 | < 0.001 |
Low | 434 | 15.4 | 214 | 21.2 | 71 | 20.7 | 139 | 18.2 | |
Medium | 473 | 16.8 | 183 | 18.1 | 68 | 19.8 | 120 | 15.7 | |
High | 668 | 23.8 | 180 | 17.8 | 72 | 21.0 | 196 | 25.7 | |
Highest | 511 | 18.2 | 92 | 9.1 | 33 | 9.6 | 94 | 12.3 | |
Missing | 230 | 8.2 | 82 | 8.1 | 18 | 5.2 | 68 | 8.9 | |
Diagnostic PSA level (ng/mL) | |||||||||
<4 | 287 | 10.2 | 56 | 5.5 | 31 | 9.0 | 160 | 21.0 | < 0.001 |
4–10 | 1705 | 60.7 | 388 | 38.4 | 214 | 62.4 | 461 | 60.5 | |
10–20 | 463 | 16.5 | 266 | 26.3 | 37 | 10.8 | 46 | 6.0 | |
>20 | 98 | 3.5 | 163 | 16.1 | 6 | 1.7 | 5 | 0.7 | |
Missing | 257 | 9.1 | 138 | 13.6 | 55 | 16.0 | 90 | 11.8 | |
Gleason score | |||||||||
<=6 | 594 | 21.1 | 112 | 11.1 | 93 | 27.1 | 714 | 93.7 | < 0.001 |
3 + 4 | 1086 | 38.6 | 285 | 28.2 | 140 | 40.8 | 32 | 4.2 | |
4 + 3 | 604 | 21.5 | 206 | 20.4 | 69 | 20.1 | 1 | 0.1 | |
8 | 299 | 10.6 | 184 | 18.2 | 26 | 7.6 | 0 | 0.0 | |
9–10 | 204 | 7.3 | 204 | 20.2 | 10 | 2.9 | 0 | 0.0 | |
Missing | 23 | 0.8 | 20 | 2.0 | 5 | 1.5 | 15 | 2.0 | |
Primary symptoms# | |||||||||
Elevated PSA | 2316 | 82.4 | 779 | 77.1 | 278 | 81.0 | 533 | 69.9 | < 0.001 |
LUTS | 76 | 2.7 | 78 | 7.7 | 8 | 2.3 | 96 | 12.6 | |
Other | 52 | 1.9 | 25 | 2.5 | 9 | 2.6 | 28 | 3.7 | |
Missing | 366 | 13.0 | 129 | 12.7 | 48 | 14.0 | 105 | 13.8 | |