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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of the NMIBC patients

From: Validation and reliability of the Dutch version of the EORTC QLQ-NMIBC24 Questionnaire Module for patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

 

All patients (n = 1463)

BlaZIB

Urolife

High-risk (n = 922)

All (n = 541)

Low risk (n = 99)

Intermediate risk (n = 250)

High risk (n = 192)

n (%)

N

(%)

N

(%)

N

(%)

N

(%)

N

(%)

N

(%)

Patient characteristics

            

Age (years), mean (SD)

70

(10)

72

(10)

66

(9)

65

(10)

66

(9)

67

(7)

Gender (% male)

1187

(81%)

761

(83%)

426

(79%)

68

(69%)

196

(78%)

162

(84%)

Living situation

            

 With partner

1165

(80%)

707

(77%)

458

(85%)

79

(80%)

212

(85%)

167

(87%)

 Without partner

298

(20%)

215

(23%)

83

(15%)

20

(20%)

38

(15%)

25

(13%)

Employment

            

 Paid job

349

(24%)

171

(19%)

175

(32%)

31

(31%)

89

(36%)

55

(29%)

 No paid job

104

(7%)

49

(5%)

55

(10%)

13

(13%)

25

(10%)

17

(9%)

 Retired

1010

(69%)

699

(76%)

311

(58%)

55

(56%)

136

(54%)

120

(62%)

Comorbiditya

            

 0

299

(20%)

212

(23%)

87

(16%)

12

(12%)

41

(16%)

34

(18%)

 1

406

(28%)

270

(29%)

136

(25%)

27

(27%)

57

(23%)

52

(27%)

 ≥ 2

739

(51%)

425

(46%)

314

(58%)

59

(60%)

152

(61%)

103

(54%)

 Missing

15

(1%)

15

(2%)

0

(0%)

0

(0%)

0

(0%)

0

(0%)

Smoking status (at baseline)

            

 Never

225

(15%)

137

(15%)

88

(16%)

19

(19%)

40

(16%)

29

(15%)

 Former

983

(67%)

633

(69%)

350

(65%)

63

(64%)

155

(62%)

132

(69%)

 Current

252

(17%)

149

(16%)

103

(19%)

17

(17%)

55

(22%)

31

(16%)

 Missing

3

(0%)

3

(0%)

0

(0%)

0

(0%)

0

(0%)

0

(0%)

Tumour characteristics

            

Tumour stage

            

 Ta

403

(28%)

0

(0%)

403

(75%)

99

(100%)

250

(100%)

54

(28%)

 T1

907

(62%)

786

(85%)

121

(22%)

0

(0%)

0

(0%)

121

(63%)

 Tis

153

(10%)

136

(15%)

17

(3%)

0

(0%)

0

(0%)

17

(9%)

Tumour grade

            

 1

156

(11%)

24

(3%)

132

(24%)

99

(100%)

29

(12%)

4

(2%)

 2

385

(26%)

125

(14%)

260

(48%)

0

(0%)

221

(88%)

39

(22%)

 3

894

(61%)

747

(81%)

147

(57%)

0

(0%)

0

(0%)

147

(77%)

 Missing

28

(2%)

26

(3%)

2

(0%)

0

(0%)

0

(0%)

2

(1%)

Adjuvant intravesical therapy

            

 None

447

(31%)

176

(19%)

271

(50%)

91

(92%)

157

(63%)

23

(12%)

 Chemotherapy

146

(10%)

17

(2%)

129

(24%)

7

(7%)

82

(33%)

40

(21%)

 BCG

808

(55%)

690

(75%)

118

(22%)

1

(1%)

7

(3%)

110

(57%)

 BCG + Chemotherapy

62

(4%)

39

(4%)

23

(4%)

0

(0%)

4

(2%)

19

(10%)

  1. BCG Bacillus Calmette-Guérin
  2. a Based on an adapted version of the Self-administered Comorbidity Questionnaire [22], including 14 diseases (cardiovascular disease, stroke, high blood pressure, asthma, chronic bronchitis or COPD, diabetes, stomach disease, kidney disease, liver disease, anaemia or other blood disease, thyroid disease, depression, arthrosis, backpain and rheumatism)