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Table 1 Characteristics of patients and primary treatment by Country

From: Patient-reported outcomes before treatment for localized prostate cancer: are there differences among countries? Data from the True North Global Registry

 

Australia/

New Zealand

(n =688)

Canada

(n =1640)

Central Europea

(n =8398)

UK

(n =202)

Italy

(n=477)

Spain

(n =165)

USA

(n =1913)

P Value

Age

       

.

 Mean (SD)

65.0 (6.50)

64.3 (7.59)

65.3 (7.27)

67.0 (7.18)

65.4 (6.39)

64.5 (7.88)

62.9 (7.19)

. <.0001

PSA

       

.

 PSA ≤ 10

546 (81.5%)

1080 (72.1%)

5751 (68.6%)

90 (72.6%)

358 (75.2%)

124 (84.4%)

1431 (82.1%)

<.0001

 PSA > 10

124 (18.5%)

417 (27.9%)

2637 (31.4%)

34 (27.4%)

118 (24.8%)

23 (15.6%)

315 (17.9%)

.

 Missing

18

143

10

78

1

18

167

.

Gleason

       

.

 Grade 1

301 (43.8%)

458 (28.1%)

1829 (21.8%)

42 (21.0%)

185 (38.9%)

86 (52.4%)

502 (27.8%)

<.0001

 Grade 2

229 (33.3%)

701 (43.0%)

3079 (36.7%)

93 (46.5%)

120 (25.3%)

46 (28.0%)

680 (37.7%)

.

 Grade 3

83 (12.1%)

250 (15.3%)

1609 (19.2%)

44 (22.0%)

72 (15.2%)

15 (9.1%)

326 (18.1%)

.

 Grade 4

33 (4.8%)

87 (5.3%)

1199 (14.3%)

15 (7.5%)

72 (15.2%)

8 (4.9%)

166 (9.2%)

.

 Grade 5

42 (6.1%)

133 (8.2%)

681 (8.1%)

6 (3.0%)

26 (5.5%)

9 (5.5%)

129 (7.2%)

.

 Missing

 

11

1

2

2

1

110

.

Tumor Risk

       

.

 Low Risk

234 (34.0%)

320 (19.5%)

1289 (15.3%)

9 (4.5%)

139 (29.1%)

57 (34.5%)

412 (21.5%)

<.0001

 Intermediate Risk

340 (49.4%)

936 (57.1%)

4628 (55.1%)

97 (48.0%)

201 (42.1%)

71 (43.0%)

1035 (54.1%)

.

 High Risk

85 (12.4%)

294 (17.9%)

2309 (27.5%)

57 (28.2%)

106 (22.2%)

24 (14.5%)

347 (18.1%)

.

 Very High Risk

3 (0.4%)

26 (1.6%)

85 (1.0%)

13 (6.4%)

0 (0.0%)

5 (3.0%)

0 (0.0%)

.

 Regional

8 (1.2%)

10 (0.6%)

84 (1.0%)

1 (0.5%)

29 (6.1%)

0 (0.0%)

6 (0.3%)

.

 Unknown

18 (2.6%)

54 (3.3%)

3 (0.0%)

25 (12.4%)

2 (0.4%)

8 (4.8%)

113 (5.9%)

.

Comorbidities

       

.

 0 comorbidities

225 (37.9%)

686 (72.9%)

5382 (72.3%)

67 (33.2%)

184 (41.3%)

52 (31.5%)

1286 (69.3%)

<.0001

 1 comorbidity

208 (35.0%)

223 (23.7%)

1396 (18.8%)

71 (35.1%)

205 (46.0%)

50 (30.3%)

263 (14.2%)

.

 2+ comorbidities

161 (27.1%)

32 (3.4%)

666 (8.9%)

64 (31.7%)

57 (12.8%)

63 (38.2%)

307 (16.5%)

.

 Missing

94

699

954

 

31

 

57

.

Primary Treatment

        

 Radical Prostatectomy

340 (49.4%)

794 (48.4%)

7754 (92.3%)

72 (35.6%)

414 (86.8%)

77 (46.7%)

1643 (85.9%)

 

 External Beam Radiotherapy

104 (15.1%)

354 (21.6%)

439 (5.2%)

53 (26.3%)

24 (5.0%)

47 (28.5%)

16 (0.8%)

 

 Brachytherapy

22 (3.2%)

83 (5.1%)

89 (1,1%)

30 (14.8%)

0 (0.0%)

41 (24.8%)

6 (0.3%)

 

 Active Surveillance

222 (32.2%)

409 (24.9%)

116 (1.4%)

47 (23.3%)

39 (8.2%)

0 (0.0%)

248 (13.0%)

 
  1. aCentral Europe includes sites from Austria, Czech Republic and Germany