Research Article

Trends in Survival of Patients with Primary Gastric Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma: An Analysis of 7051 Cases in the SEER Database

Table 1

Clinical features of patients with primary gastric DLBCL in the indicated eras.

Clinical featuresEra
1973–2014
()
1973–2000
(; 40.6%)
2001–2014
(; 59.4%)

Median age at diagnosis, years (range)70 (0–105)70 (4–100)71 (0–105)
Sex N (%)0.004
 Male3944 (55.9%)1547 (54.0%)2397 (57.3%)
 Female3107 (44.1%)1318 (46.0%)1789 (42.7%)
Age N (%)0.288
 <601859 (26.4%)766 (26.7%)1093 (26.1%)
 ≥605192 (73.6%)2099 (73.3%)3093 (73.9%)
Stage N (%)<0.001#
 Early4184 (59.3%)1615 (56.4%)2569 (61.4%)
 Advanced1962 (27.8%)631 (22.0%)1331 (31.8%)
 Unknown905 (12.8%)619 (21.6%)286 (6.8%)
Race N (%)0.018#
 White5692 (80.7%)2367 (82.6%)3325 (79.4%)
 Black528 (7.5%)196 (6.8%)332 (7.9%)
 Other793 (11.2%)297 (10.4%)496 (11.8%)
 Unknown38 (0.5)5 (0.2%)33 (0.8%)

Analysis excludes unknown or missing values.