Enrico Martin

32 Chapter 2 Table 2 Treatment differences between tumor sites. Definition Total Intracranial Spinal H&N Limbs Core NOS & Unknown P Number of patients 2732 141 94 344 878 1106 169 No surgery 306 (11.2) 43 (30.5) 9 (9.6) 29 (8.4) 49 (5.6) 132 (11.9) 44 (26.0) <0.001 Biopsy only 62 (2.3) 3 (2.1) 0 (0.0) 11 (3.2) 6 (0.7) 38 (3.4) 4 (2.4) Partial resection 820 (30.0) 4 (2.8) 9 (9.6) 129 (37.5) 317 (36.1) 334 (30.2) 27 (16.0) GTR 765 (28.0) 38 (27.0) 40 (42.6) 89 (25.9) 298 (33.9) 275 (24.9) 25 (14.8) Surgery NOS 658 (24.1) 37 (26.2) 34 (36.2) 73 (21.2) 195 (22.2) 270 (24.4) 49 (29.0) Unknown Sx 121 (4.4) 16 (11.3) 2 (2.1) 13 (3.8) 13 (1.5) 57 (5.2) 20 (11.8) No radiation 1591 (58.2) 88 (62.4) 59 (62.8) 195 (56.7) 477 (54.3) 660 (59.7) 112 (66.3) 0.048 Any form radiation 1064 (38.9) 50 (35.5) 34 (36.2) 141 (41.0) 367 (41.8) 421 (38.1) 51 (30.2) Unknown 77 (2.8) 3 (2.1) 1 (1.1) 8 (2.3) 34 (3.9) 25 (2.3) 6 (3.6) No RTx or no Sx 1802 (66.0) 112 (79.4) 64 (68.1) 216 (62.8) 523 (59.6) 758 (68.5) 129 (76.3) <0.001 Adjuvant RTx 766 (28.0) 27 (19.1) 28 (29.8) 114 (33.1) 274 (31.2) 288 (26.0) 35 (20.7) Neoadjuvant RTx 116 (4.2) 0 (0.0) 1 (1.1) 6 (1.7) 60 (6.8) 45 (4.1) 4 (2.4) RTx b/a Sx 23 (0.8) 1 (0.7) 1 (1.1) 4 (1.2) 12 (1.4) 5 (0.5) 0 (0.0) Intraoperative RTx 16 (0.6) 1 (0.7) 0 (0.0) 3 (0.9) 6 (0.7) 6 (0.5) 0 (0.0) Unknown sequence 9 (0.3) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 1 (0.3) 3 (0.3) 4 (0.4) 1 (0.6) b/a: before and after, GTR: gross total resection, H&N: head and neck, NOS: not otherwise specified, RTx: radiotherapy, Sx: surgery