Table 1 Clinicopathological characteristics
Tissue | Renal cortex | Renal medulla | Renal pelvis | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Group | RCC | non-RCC | p | RCC | non-RCC | p | UTUC | non-UTUC | p |
N | 14 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 15 | |||
Age | |||||||||
≥ 70 | 6 | 9 | 0.13 | 6 | 5 | 1.00 | 5 | 7 | 1.00 |
< 70 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 8 | |||
Sex | |||||||||
Male | 10 | 9 | 1.00 | 9 | 8 | 0.60 | 8 | 11 | 1.00 |
Female | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
Smoking history | |||||||||
Current smoker | 3 | 1* | 0.86 | 3 | 0 | 0.24 | 2 | 2 | 0.76 |
Ex-smoker | 8 | 6* | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | |||
Non-smoker | 3 | 3* | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||
Herb use | |||||||||
Yes | 0 | 3 | 0.085 | 0 | 0 | NA | 2 | 0** | 0.16 |
No | 14 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 14** | |||
eGFR (mL/min) | |||||||||
> 60 | 9 | 3 | 0.062 | 8 | 4 | 0.40 | 4 | 10** | 0.38 |
≤ 60 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4** | |||
T category*** | |||||||||
Tis | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – |
T1 | 2 | – | – | 2 | – | – | 3 | – | – |
T2 | 0 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 2 | – | – |
T3 | 12 | – | – | 10 | – | – | 4 | – | – |