Research Article

Prognostic Exploration of All-Cause Death in Gingival Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Retrospective Analysis of 2076 Patients

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

VariableTraining cohortValidation cohort

Age at diagnosis71 (61–80)72 (62–81)
Race n (%)
 White1223 (84.2)530 (85.1)
 Black91 (6.3)44 (7.1)
 Other138 (9.5)49 (7.9)

Sex n (%)
 Male750 (51.7)308 (49.4)
 Female702 (48.3)315 (50.6)

Marital n (%)
 Married1183 (81.5)507 (81.4)
 Unmarried269 (18.5)116 (18.6)
 Other

AJCC n (%)
 I362 (24.9)156 (25.0)
 II271 (18.7)111 (17.8)
 III183 (12.6)66 (10.6)
 IV636 (43.8)290 (46.5)

Site n (%)
 Lip upper437 (30.1)166 (26.6)
 Lip lower907 (62.5)418 (67.1)
 Other lip108 (7.4)39 (6.3)

ICD n (%)
 80701050 (72.3)454 (72.9)
 8071375 (25.8)157 (25.2)
 807217 (1.2)6 (1.0)
 80748 (0.6)4 (0.6)
 80751 (0.1)2 (0.3)
 80761 (0.1)

Grade
 I440 (30.3)182 (29.2)
 II767 (52.8)340 (54.6)
 III242 (16.7)99 (15.9)
 IV3 (0.2)2 (0.3)

Chemotherapy n (%)
 Yes302 (20.8)115 (18.5)
 No1150 (79.2)508 (81.5)

Radiotherapy n (%)
 Yes694 (47.8)294 (47.2)
 No758 (52.2)329 (52.8

Surgery n (%)
 Yes1256 (86.5)546 (87.6)
 No196 (13.5)77 (12.4)