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Table 1 Characteristics of NADC patients at Ocean Road Cancer Institute, 2002-2012, by HIV status a

From: The changing pattern of ano-rectal cancer, squamous cell carcinoma of the eye, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma as non-AIDS-defining cancers, by HIV status, in Tanzania over 11 years (2002-2012): a retrospective case-report study

 

HIV positive (N = 147)

HIV negative (N = 151)

  
 

N (%)b

N(%)

P valuec

OR (95% CI)d

Age (years)

    

Mean ± SD

40.6 ± 10.1

35.0 ± 19.1

0.0024*

1.02 (1.01, 1.04)

Female

90 (61.2%)

71 (47.0%)

0.0142*

1.78 (1.12, 2.82)

Dar es Salaam residence

60 (40.8%)

46 (30.5%)

0.0627

1.57 (0.98, 2.54)

Advanced cancer stage (% of reported)

43 (95.6%)

48 (78.7%)

0.0254*

5.82 (1.24, 27.29)

Cancer treatment

    

Radiotherapy

110 (75.3%)

68 (46.9%)

<.0001*

3.5 (2.10, 5.70)

Chemotherapy

51 (35.2%)

105 (72.4%)

<.0001*

0.21 (0.13, 0.34)

Both

40 (27.6%)

41 (28.3%)

0.8959

0.97 (0.58, 1.61)

Co-morbidities

    

Mean ± SD (count)

0.61 ± 0.86

1.43 ± 1.43

<.0001*

0.52 (0.41, 0.67)

Tuberculosis

14 (9.5%)

6 (4.0%)

0.0633

2.54 (0.95, 6.81)

Died

16 (11.4%)

18 (12.5%)

0.7641

0.90 (0.44, 1.84)

  1. aHIV status missing/unknown = 682.
  2. bTotals vary due to missing data.
  3. cChi-squared tests/Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables and t-test/Wilcoxon rank-sum tests for continuous variables.
  4. dOdds ratio (95% CI) calculated from unconditional logistic regression model.
  5. *Significant at alpha < .05.