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Table 1 Baseline characteristics

From: Upfront surgery in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer and enlarged supradiaphragmatic lymph nodes associated with comparable to neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Parameter

Enlarged supradiaphragmatic lymph nodes

P-value

Present N = 47

Absent N = 24

Age, years (mean ± SD)

62.4 ± 8.7

65.7 ± 10.1

0.158

BRCA status, n (%)

Unknown

12 (25.6%)

6 (25%)

0.714

BRCA1 positive

8 (17%)

6 (25%)

 

BRCA1 negative

27 (57.4%)

12 (50%)

 

CA-125 at diagnosis, U/ml (mean ± SD)

1797.3 ± 357.5

708.2 ± 98.6

0.048

Surgery, n (%)

Upfront

22 (46.8%)

9 (37.5%)

0.454

Interval

25 (53.2%)

15 (62.5%)

 

Histology, n (%)

Serous

43 (91.6%)

23 (95.8%)

0.773

Endometrioid

1 (2.1%)

0 (0%)

 

Mucinous

1 (2.1%)

0 (0%)

 

Carcinosarcoma

1 (2.1%)

1 (4.2%)

 

Squamous cell

1 (2.1%)

0 (0%)

 

Tumor burden* (average Eisenkop score)

4.4 ± 2.0

4.5 ± 2.1

0.854

  1. *At completion of cytoreductive surgery