Baseline characteristics of all participating patients
Value | All patients | |
n=96 | ||
Demographic information | ||
Age (years), mean±SD | 61.3±14.7 | |
Ethnicity, n (%) | Dutch | 88 (91.7) |
Other | 8 (8.3) | |
Educational level, n (%) | High school or less | 36 (37.5) |
Vocational | 25 (26.05) | |
Higher vocational or university | 34 (35.5) | |
Unknown | 1 (1.0) | |
Single | 7 (7.3) | |
Marital state, n (%) | Married or cohabiting | 65 (67.7) |
Widowed | 13 (13.5) | |
Divorced | 9 (9.4) | |
Living apart together | 2 (2.1) | |
Children at home n (%) <17 years old, n (%) | 16 (16.7) | |
Distance to the hospital in km, n (%) | 0–10 km | 21 (21.9) |
10–50 km | 48 (50.0) | |
>50 km | 27 (28.1) | |
Clinical information | ||
Patients with recurrent disease, n (%) | 15 (15.6) | |
Diagnosis presurgery, n (%) | Ovarian cancer | 17 (17.7) |
Endometrial cancer | 21 (21.9) | |
Vulvar cancer | 22 (22.9) | |
Cervical cancer | 14 (14.6) | |
Suspected cancer | 22 (21.9) | |
Stage after surgery, n (%) | Undefined* | 5 (5.2) |
Stage I | 39 (40.6) | |
Stage II | 8 (8.3) | |
Stage III | 17 (17.7) | |
Stage IV | 4 (4.2) | |
Benign | 11 (11.5) | |
Borderline tumour ovary | 5 (5.2) | |
Metastasised non-gynaecological tumour† | 1 (1.0) | |
Not appplicable‡ | 5 (5.2) | |
Type of surgery, n (%) | Radical hysterectomy with PLND | 11 (11.5) |
Laparoscopic salpingo-oophorectomy | 2 (2.1) | |
Staging surgery | 8 (8.2) | |
Primary debulking surgery | 14 (14.6) | |
Abdominal hysterectomy | 7 (7.3) | |
Exploratory laparotomy | 20 (20.8) | |
Total laparoscopic or robot assisted hysterectomy | 8 (8.4) | |
WLE/Radical vulvectomy | 21 (21.9) | |
Robot-assisted staging surgery | 5 (5.2) |
Mean ± standard deviation or number in the group is shown. Abbreviations: PLND = pelvic lymph node dissection; WLE=Wide local excision.
*Stage was classified as undefined if there was insufficient information after surgery for classification of FIGO stage.
†Krukenberg tumour
‡Consists of recurrent disease without proper staging afterwards