Research Article
The Influence of Marital Status on the Survival of Patients with Uveal Melanoma
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of uveal melanoma patients in the SEER database eligible in this study.
| | Characteristics | Total (%) | Married (%) | Single (%) | Divorced/separated (%) | Widowed (%) | | | 4217 (100) | 2793 (66.2) | 615 (14.6) | 379 (9.0) | 430 (10.2) |
| | Gender | | | | | | <0.001 | | Male | 2215 (52.5) | 1652 (59.1) | 315 (51.2) | 151 (39.8) | 97 (22.6) | | Female | 2002 (47.5) | 1141 (40.9) | 300 (48.8) | 228 (60.2) | 333 (77.4) | | Age at diagnosis | | | | | | <0.001 | | 18–40 | 280 (6.6) | 162 (5.8) | 100 (16.3) | 18 (4.7) | 0 (0.0) | | 40–59 | 1534 (36.4) | 1077 (38.6) | 266 (43.3) | 162 (42.7) | 29 (6.7) | | 60–79 | 1922 (45.6) | 1319 (47.2) | 210 (34.1) | 185 (48.8) | 208 (48.4) | | ≥80 | 481 (11.4) | 235 (8.4) | 39 (6.3) | 14 (3.7) | 193 (44.9) | | Race | | | | | | 0.907 | | Black | 28 (0.7) | 16 (0.6) | 6 (1.0) | 3 (0.8) | 3 (0.7) | | White | 4071 (96.5) | 2696 (96.5) | 589 (95.8) | 367 (96.8) | 419 (97.4) | | Others | 62 (1.5) | 42 (1.5) | 11 (1.8) | 4 (1.1) | 5 (1.2) | | Unknown | 56 (1.3) | 39 (1.4) | 9 (1.5) | 5 (1.3) | 3 (0.7) | | Diagnosis year | | | | | | 0.022 | | 2004–2006 | 1012 (24.0) | 672 (24.1) | 137 (22.3) | 86 (22.7) | 117 (27.2) | | 2007–2009 | 1034 (24.5) | 688 (24.6) | 133 (21.6) | 92 (24.3) | 121 (28.1) | | 2010–2012 | 1008 (23.9) | 646 (23.1) | 168 (27.3) | 91 (24.0) | 103 (24.0) | | 2013–2015 | 1163 (27.6) | 787 (28.2) | 177 (28.8) | 110 (29.0) | 89 (20.7) | | SEER stage | | | | | | 0.026 | | Localized | 3767 (89.3) | 2505 (89.7) | 556 (90.4) | 336 (88.7) | 370 (86.0) | | Regional | 399 (9.5) | 260 (9.3) | 55 (8.9) | 34 (9.0) | 50 (11.6) | | Metastatic | 51 (1.2) | 28 (1.0) | 4 (0.7) | 9 (2.4) | 10 (2.3) | | Histology type | | | | | | 0.423 | | Malignant melanoma, NOS | 3293 (78.1) | 2196 (78.6) | 460 (74.8) | 301 (79.4) | 336 (78.1) | | Mixed epithelioid and spindle cell melanoma | 338 (8.0) | 212 (7.6) | 56 (9.1) | 27 (7.1) | 43 (10.0) | | Spindle cell melanoma | 428 (10.1) | 285 (10.2) | 71 (11.5) | 36 (9.5) | 36 (8.4) | | Others | 158 (3.7) | 100 (3.6) | 28 (4.6) | 15 (4.0) | 15 (3.5) | | AJCC stage | | | | | | 0.037 | | I | 1576 (37.4) | 1054 (37.7) | 231 (37.6) | 146 (38.5) | 145 (33.7) | | II | 1803 (42.8) | 1217 (43, 6) | 243 (39.5) | 154 (40.6) | 189 (44.0) | | III | 791 (18.8) | 495 (17.7) | 137 (22.3) | 71 (18.7) | 88 (20.5) | | IV | 47 (1.1) | 27 (1.0) | 4 (0.7) | 8 (2.1) | 8 (1.9) | | Surgery | | | | | | <0.001 | | Yes | 1232 (29.2) | 757 (27.1) | 212 (34.5) | 128 (33.8) | 135 (31.4) | | No/unknown | 2985 (70.8) | 2036 (72.9) | 403 (65.5) | 251 (66.2) | 295 (68.6) | | Median household income | | | | | | 0.002 | | Quartile 1 | 1044 (24.8) | 700 (25.1) | 112 (18.2) | 110 (29.0) | 122 (28.4) | | Quartile 2 | 1057 (25.1) | 680 (24.3) | 183 (29.8) | 88 (23.2) | 106 (24.7) | | Quartile 3 | 1060 (25.1) | 720 (25.8) | 155 (25.2) | 90 (23.7) | 95 (22.1) | | Quartile 4 | 1056 (25.0) | 693 (24.8) | 165 (26.8) | 91 (24.0) | 107 (24.9) | | Registry sites | | | | | | <0.001 | | West | 2322 (55.1) | 1534 (54.9) | 383 (62.3) | 202 (53.3) | 203 (47.2) | | Midwest | 508 (12.0) | 333 (11.9) | 63 (10.2) | 46 (12.1) | 66 (15.3) | | South | 802 (19.0) | 548 (19.6) | 78 (12.7) | 85 (22.4) | 91 (21.2) | | Northeast | 585 (13.9) | 378 (13.5) | 91 (14.8) | 46 (12.1) | 70 (16.3) |
|
|
