Table 1 Demographic features of patients stratified by age at diagnosis.
Features | n | % | 75–79 | 80–84 | 85–102 | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | n | n | ||||||
Gender | 0.000 | |||||||
Male | 534 | 50.2 | 241 | 180 | 113 | |||
Female | 530 | 49.8 | 197 | 162 | 171 | |||
Race | 0.098 | |||||||
Caucasian | 930 | 87.4 | 373 | 297 | 260 | |||
Asian | 93 | 8.7 | 44 | 34 | 15 | |||
African American | 41 | 3.9 | 21 | 11 | 9 | |||
Stage | 0.002 | |||||||
I–II | 701 | 65.9 | 263 | 234 | 204 | |||
III–IV | 363 | 34.1 | 175 | 108 | 80 | |||
T classification | 0.327 | |||||||
T1 | 532 | 50.0 | 224 | 171 | 137 | |||
T2 | 338 | 31.8 | 125 | 117 | 96 | |||
T3 | 115 | 10.8 | 47 | 33 | 35 | |||
T4a | 76 | 7.1 | 40 | 20 | 16 | |||
T4b | 3 | 0.3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
N classification | 0.060 | |||||||
N0 | 803 | 75.5 | 314 | 260 | 229 | |||
N1 | 121 | 11.4 | 68 | 34 | 19 | |||
N2a | 4 | 0.4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
N2b | 107 | 10.1 | 44 | 36 | 27 | |||
N2c | 23 | 2.2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | |||
N3 | 6 | 0.6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||
Grade | 0.306 | |||||||
1 | 297 | 27.9 | 113 | 94 | 90 | |||
2 | 579 | 54.4 | 248 | 180 | 151 | |||
3 | 188 | 17.7 | 77 | 68 | 43 | |||
Surgery therapy | 0.000 | |||||||
Yes | 885 | 83.2 | 379 | 287 | 219 | |||
No | 179 | 16.8 | 59 | 55 | 65 | |||
Tumor location | 0.683 | |||||||
Dorsal surface of tongue | 53 | 5.0 | 23 | 14 | 16 | |||
Border of tongue | 214 | 20.1 | 89 | 67 | 58 | |||
Ventral surface of tongue | 124 | 11.7 | 58 | 36 | 30 | |||
Anterior 2/3 of tongue | 295 | 27.7 | 115 | 107 | 73 | |||
Overlapping lesion of tongue | 57 | 5.4 | 23 | 14 | 20 | |||
Tongue anterior, NOS | 321 | 30.2 | 130 | 104 | 87 | |||