Research Article
Preoperative Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Independently Predicts Overall Survival in Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma following Radical Nephrectomy
Table 1
Patient characteristics.
| | Variables | Low risk
(≤20.0 mm/hr)
() | Intermediate risk
(20.1–50.0 mm/hr)
() | High risk
(50.1 mm/hr)
() | All patients
() |
| | Age (y) | | | | | | Mean (SD) | 56.5 (12.7) | 64.4 (14.2) | 64.2 (11.7) | 59.4 (12.8) | | Race (%white/%nonwhite) | 84.3/15.7 | 79.4/20.6 | 60.0/40.0 | 72.1/27.9 | | Gender (%male) | 70.3 | 52.5 | 50.0 | 64.8 | | Charlson Comorbidity Index | | | | | | Mean (SD) | 2.9 (1.6) | 3.0 (1.7) | 4.0 (2.3) | 3.1 (1.7) | | | | | | | T-Stage (%T1/%T2/%T3-4) | 84.3/7.9/7.9 | 68.4/10.5/21.1 | 35.5/16.7/45.8 | 72.3/10.3/17.4 | | Fuhrman Nuclear Grade | | | | | | (%I-II/%III/%IV) | 59.1/39.8/1.1 | 50.0/44.7/5.3 | 29.2/54.2/16.7 | 49.5/43.2/7.3 | | Tumor size (cm) | | | | | | Mean (SD) | 4.4 (2.6) | 4.9 (2.9) | 7.0 (4.3) | 5.0 (3.2) | | ESR† (mm/hr) | | | | | | Mean (SD) | 10.1 (5.0) | 31.5 (7.3) | 82.5 (24.9) | 28.5 (29.4) |
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†Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate.
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