Table 1 Characteristics of the localized prostate cancer patients.

From: Uncovering interpretable potential confounders in electronic medical records

 

Treatment groups

Features

Surgery (n = 988)

Radiation (n = 385)

Monitoring (n = 449)

Age, mean (std)

64.04 (7.8)

70.18 (7.6)

66.22 (8.2)

Race, no. (%)

   

 White

709 (71.8%)

221 (57.4%)

292 (65.0%)

 Black

32 (3.2%)

15 (3.9%)

14 (3.1%)

 Asian

94 (9.5%)

41 (10.6%)

42 (9.4%)

 Unknown

153 (15.4%)

108 (28.1%)

101 (22.5%)

Ethnicity, no. (%)

   

 Hispanic

71 (7.1%)

20 (5.2%)

23 (5.1%)

 Non-Hispanic

890 (90.1%)

348 (90.4%)

393 (87.5%)

 Unknown

27 (2.7%)

17 (4.4%))

33 (7.3%)

Clinical stage, no. (%)

   

 Stage I

219 (22.2%)

36 (9.4%)

227 (50.6%)

 Stage II

750 (75.9%)

289 (75.1%)

217 (48.3%)

 Stage III

12 (1.2%)

38 (9.9%)

3 (0.7%)

 Stage IV

7 (0.7%)

22 (5.7%)

2 (0.4%)

Tumor grade, no. (%)

   

 Grade 1

66 (66.8%)

33 (8.6%)

157 ((35.0%)

 Grade 2

429 (43.4%)

132 (34.3%)

205 (45.7%)

 Grade 3

474 (48.0%)

208 (54.0%)

62 (13.8%)

 Grade 4

3 (0.3%)

2 (0.5%)

0 (0%)

 Unknown

16 (1.6%)

10 (2.6%)

25 (5.6%)

No. notes/patient, mean (std)

24.96 (44.4)

53.93 (105.7)

54.48 (93.4)

Days of survival, mean (std)

1564.90 (979.4)

1424.76 (1,031.6)

1403.72 (921.2)

Death, no. (%)

70 (7.1%)

19 (4.9%)

17 (3.8%)

  1. Diagnosis year: 2008–2017; avg. follow-up: 4.11 years.