Table 1 Characteristics of glioma patients according to TA and hTERT transcript
| Characteristics | n patients (%) |
TA, n patients (%) | P |
hTERT, n patients (%) | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 96 |
Positive 67 (69.8) |
Negative 29 (30.2) |
hTERT +β 65 (67.7) |
hTERT -β 31 (32.3) | |||
| Gender | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Male | 51 (53.1) | 36 (70.6) | 15 (29.4) | 35 (68.6) | 16 (31.4) | ||
| female | 45 (46.9) | 31 (68.9) | 14 (31.1) | 30 (66.7) | 15 (33.3) | ||
| Age | 0.007* | 0.029* | |||||
| <50 | 52 (54.2) | 30 (57.7) | 22 (42.3) | 30 (57.7) | 22 (42.3) | ||
| ≥ 50 | 44 (45.8) | 37 (84.1) | 7 (15.9) | 35 (79.5) | 9 (20.5) | ||
| KPS | 0.012* | 0.015* | |||||
| <75 | 57 (59.4) | 34 (59.6) | 23 (40.4) | 33 (57.9) | 24 (42.1) | ||
| ≥ 75 | 39 (40.6) | 33 (84.6) | 6 (15.4) | 32 (82.1) | 7 (17.9) | ||
| Tumor size (cm) | 0.008* | 0.002* | |||||
| <6 | 49 (51) | 28 (57.1) | 21 (42.9) | 26 (53.1) | 23 (46.9) | ||
| ≥ 6 | 47 (49) | 39 (83) | 8 (17) | 39 (83) | 8 (17) | ||
| Histopathology and WHO grade | 0.001* | 0.001* | |||||
| GBMs (IV) | 38 (39.6) | 34 (89.5) | 4 (10.5) | 33 (86.8) | 5 (13.2) | ||
| ODMs (III) | 23 (24) | 17 (73.9) | 6 (26.1) | 17 (73.9) | 6 (26.1) | ||
| OAMs (III, II) | 35 (36.4) | 16 (45.7) | 19 (54.2) | 15 (42.9) | 20 (57.1) | ||
| Extent of resection | 0.082 | 0.334 | |||||
| GTR | 71 (74) | 46 (64.8) | 25 (35.2) | 46 (64.8) | 25 (35.2) | ||
| STR | 25 (26) | 21 (84) | 4 (16) | 19 (76) | 6 (24) | ||