Clinical Analysis of 45 Patients with Thymic Carcinoma

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Table 1.

Results of univariate analysis of different prognostic factors

		Cases	3-year survival rate (%)	MST (months)	P
Histological	Low grade	25	72.0	62	< 0.05
Histological	High grade	20	40.0	31	< 0.05
Masaoka stage	III	29	75.9	54	< 0.05
Masaoka stage	IV	16	25.0	27	< 0.05
Resection	Complete	5	80.0	71	> 0.05
Resection	Incomplete (including only biopsy)	40	55.0	38	> 0.05
Radiotherapy	Yes	42	61.9	48	> 0.05
Radiotherapy	No	3	0	10	> 0.05
Chemotherapy	Yes	31	64.2	49	> 0.05
Chemotherapy	No	14	42.9	40	> 0.05