Table 1 Clinicopathological factors of patients with and without brain metastasis.

From: Analysis of risk factors and prognostic factors of brain metastasis in gastric cancer: a surveillance, epidemiology and end-results database study

Characteristics

No brain metastasis

N = 58,863

Brain metastasis

N = 368

X2

P value

Age

  

17.222

 < 0.001

 ≤ 60 years

17,949 (99.2%)

149 (0.8%)

  

 > 60 years

40,914 (99.5%)

219 (0.5%)

  

Sex

  

20.222

 < 0.001

 Male

35,624 (99.3%)

265 (0.7%)

  

 Female

23,239 (99.6%)

103 (0.4%)

  

Race

  

18.324

 < 0.001

 Caucasian

41,697 (99.3%)

298 (0.7%)

  

 African American

7746 (99.6%)

30 (0.4%)

  

 Others

9420 (99.6%)

40 (0.4%)

  

Tumor site

  

101.328

 < 0.001

 Cardia

17,400 (99.0%)

182 (1.0%)

  

 Antrum

9642(99.8%)

16 (0.2%)

  

 Body

6649 (99.6%)

24 (0.4%)

  

 Fundus

3066 (99.4%)

19 (0.6%)

  

 Greater

2635 (99.6%)

11 (0.4%)

  

 Lesser

4287 (99.6%)

16 (0.4%)

  

 Pylorus

1364 (99.9%)

2 (0.1%)

  

 Not specified

13,820 (99.3%)

98 (0.7%)

  

Histological type

  

6.884

0.142

 Adenocarcinoma

41,251 (99.4%)

267 (0.6%)

  

 Mucinous

794 (99.7%)

2 (0.3%)

  

 Papillary

187 (98.9%)

2 (1.1%)

  

 Signet ring cell

8938 (99.3%)

62 (0.7%)

  

 Other

7693 (99.5%)

35 (0.5%)

  

Grade

  

35.421

 < 0.001

 Grade I

4885 (99.94%)

3 (0.06%)

  

 Grade II

11,760 (99.4%)

69 (0.6%)

  

 Grade III

26,940 (99.4%)

169 (0.6%)

  

 Grade IV

914 (99.1%)

8 (0.9%)

  

 Unknown

14,364 (99.2%)

119 (0.8%)

  

Tumor size

  

115.675

 < 0.001

 ≤ 5 cm

23,475 (99.7%)

80 (0.3%)

  

 > 5 cm

12,649 (99.6%)

45 (0.4%)

  

 Others

22,739 (98.9%)

243 (1.1%)

  

T stage

  

226.769

 < 0.001

 T1

14,042 (99.6%)

53 (0.4%)

  

 T2

6545 (99.8%)

12 (0.2%)

  

 T3

13,203 (99.7%)

39 (0.3%)

  

 T4

9209 (99.6%)

37 (0.4%)

  

 Unknown

15,864 (98.6%)

227 (1.4%)

  

N stage

  

124.920

 < 0.001

 No

30,633 (99.6%)

118 (0.4%)

  

 N1

11,769 (99.2%)

100 (0.8%)

  

 N2

4179 (99.7%)

11 (0.3%)

  

 N3

3998 (99.4%)

23 (0.6%)

  

 Unknown

8284 (98.6%)

116 (1.4%)

  

Surgery

  

244.251

 < 0.001

 No

31,351 (98.1%)

346 (1.1%)

  

 Yes

27,512 (99.92%)

22 (0.08%)

  

Bone metastasis

  

720.662

 < 0.001

 No

56,509 (99.6%)

250 (0.4%)

  

 Yes

2353 (95.2%)

118 (4.8%)

  

Liver metastasis

  

184.186

 < 0.001

 No

50,302 (99.6%)

222 (0.4%)

  

Yes

8561 (98.3%)

146 (1.7%)

  

Lung metastasis

  

757.173

 < 0.001

 No

56,156 (99.6%)

238 (0.4%)

  

 Yes

2707 (95.4%)

130 (4.6%)

  

Income

  

2.131

0.345

 Less than 50 k

7872 (99.4%)

44 (0.6%)

  

 50–75 k

32,012 (99.3%)

214 (0.7%)

  

 More than 75 k

18,979 (99.4%)

110 (0.6%)