Table 1 Descriptive statistics of demographic and primary cancer sites in different pain control groups
Group by pain control status | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Variable | Improved (n = 163) | Not improved (n = 74) | Statistics (t-test/χ2test) | p |
Age (years) | 63.62 ± 13.76 | 64.73 ± 13.99 | −0.57 | .567 |
Survival (days) | 40.98 ± 40.97 | 32.58 ± 37.62 | 1.41 | .161 |
Gender | 0.01 | .924 | ||
Male | 76(46.6 %) | 35(47.3 %) | ||
Female | 87(53.4 %) | 39(52.7 %) | ||
Primary Cancer Site | 2.53 | .960 | ||
Lung | 31 (19.0 %) | 15 (20.3 %) | ||
Liver | 30 (18.4 %) | 12 (16.2 %) | ||
Colon and rectum | 14 (8.6 %) | 7 (9.5 %) | ||
Head and neck | 13 (8.0 %) | 4 (5.4 %) | ||
Breast | 11 (6.7 %) | 3 (4.1 %) | ||
Stomach | 10 (6.1 %) | 7 (9.5 %) | ||
Pancreas | 9 (5.5 %) | 3 (4.1 %) | ||
Cervix/uterine | 6 (3.7 %) | 3 (4.1 %) | ||
Others | 39 (23.9 %) | 20 (27.0 %) | ||