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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-26
pubmed:abstractText
This research was undertaken to evaluate the effects of age and race on prognosis of patients with endometrial carcinoma. A total of 279 patients with endometrial carcinoma treated at State University of New York-Health Science Center and Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York from 1975 to 1990 were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were arbitrarily divided into young and old groups (< or = 60 years or > 60 years old, respectively). The distribution of grade, clinical stage, and extent of myometrial invasion by age was determined for the entire group and for black and white patients, respectively. Young and old patients were stratified by clinical stage, grade, and extent of myometrial invasion. The corrected median survival of young and old patients by race was evaluated by Kaplan Meier's method of analysis. Older patients in general had higher clinical stage, higher grade, and greater depth of myometrial invasion than younger patients. Also, black patients had higher clinical stage, higher grade, and greater depth of myometrial invasion than white patients. Older black patients had the least favorable distribution of prognostic factors. Overall younger patients had a median survival of 200 months compared to 90 months for older patients (p = 0.0085). The overall corrected median survival for whites was 232 months compared to 108 months for blacks (p = 0.0001). The median survival of older black patients was worst at 40 months, compared to 155 months for older white patients (p = 0.0005). Age is a very important prognostic factor in endometrial carcinoma for both blacks and whites, and it appears to be more pronounced in older black patients.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0277-3732
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
595-600
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Age and race as prognostic factors in endometrial carcinoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Radiation Oncology, State University of New York-Health Science Center at Brooklyn, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study