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Table 3 Cross tabulation of survival estimates in different surgical and first-line medical treatment groups

From: Nephrectomy improves the survival of metastatic renal cell cancer patients with moderate to good performance status—results from a Finnish nation-wide population-based study from 2005 to 2010

 

First-line medical treatment

    

Nephrectomy status

 

No surgical treatment

Cytoreductive nephrectomy

Surgery with curative intent

p value

  

Median OS (95% CI), months

 
 

No medical treatment

3.5 (2.5–4.4)

4.1 (3.0–5.2)

50.6 (0.0–105.7)

< 0.001

 

Chemotherapy

7.3 (5.4–9.2)

10.3 (3.4–17.3)

0.92

 

Interferon ± chemotherapy

10.0 (7.3–12.7)

18.6 (14.7–22.4)

43.6 (0.0–116.8)

0.002

 

Targeted therapy

10.6 (8.1–13.1)

21.9 (16.8–27.0)

57.2 (36.2–78.1)

< 0.001

  1. Note: OS = overall survival, CI = confidence interval