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Table 3
Comparisons of global health scale, functional scale, and symptom scale with clinical variables.
| Mean and Std. deviation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHS | Functional status | Symptom scale | ||||
| Mean | S. Dev | Mean | S. Dev | Mean | S. Dev | |
| Age | ||||||
| • Less than equal to 45 | 49.48 | 11.93 | 328.55 | 71.45 | 285.30 | 153.09 |
| • More than 45 | 43.64 | 16.15 | 266.74 | 67.83 | 394.62 | 147.25 |
| P-value | 0.17 | 0.01* | 0.02* | |||
| Sex | ||||||
| • Male | 46.36 | 14.96 | 291.82 | 74.47 | 354.32 | 160.67 |
| • Female | 38.87 | 12.72 | 269.83 | 95.33 | 329.70 | 115.22 |
| P-value | 0.36 | 0.36 | 0.65 | |||
| Staging | ||||||
| • T1 | 50.80 | 15.91 | 288.18 | 88.34 | 326.75 | 218.31 |
| • T2 | 42.93 | 12.78 | 300.53 | 62.31 | 351.61 | 106.94 |
| • T3 | 53.30 | 20.06 | 288.50 | 96.47 | 368.34 | 198.47 |
| • T4 | 43.55 | 14.49 | 278.08 | 79.94 | 368.42 | 167.02 |
| P-value | 0.28 | 0.87 | 0.70 | |||
| Treatment | ||||||
| • Surgery + Radiotherapy | 36.77 | 13.03 | 288.17 | 65.33 | 354.68 | 120.22 |
| • Surgery + Radiotherapy + Chemotherapy | 49.00 | 14.24 | 291.18 | 78.78 | 352.09 | 169.72 |
| P-value | 0.01* | 0.89 | 0.85 | |||
| Overall survival | ||||||
| • 1-3 years | 37.50 | 17.67 | 374.75 | 16.47 | 331.35 | 124.80 |
| • More than 3 years | 46.25 | 14.81 | 286.66 | 74.30 | 353.70 | 159.67 |
| P-value | 0.48 | 0.11 | 0.81 | |||
| Site | ||||||
| • Buccal mucosa | 43.61 | 15.77 | 270.15 | 84.88 | 391.74 | 163.88 |
| • Tongue | 52.03 | 9.85 | 325.68 | 52.34 | 256.64 | 128.34 |
| • Alveolar ridge | 30.53 | 17.37 | 283.20 | 89.38 | 461.83 | 36.57 |
| • Multiple sites ipsilateral | 43.30 | 18.97 | 269.86 | 80.01 | 411.64 | 146.62 |
| P-value | 0.24 | 0.14 | 0.04* | |||
P <0.05 = An association is present and statistically significant.
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