Outcome and the effect of age and socioeconomic status in 1318 patients with synovial sarcoma in the English National Cancer Registry: 1985–2009

Table 1 Patient characteristics in 1318 patients with synovial sarcoma

	All patients		Children and teenagers		Adults
	No.	%	No	%	No.	%
Total	1318	–	182	–	1136	−
Age (years)
0–9	25	2	25	14	0	0
10–19	157	12	157	86	0	0
20–29	237	18	0	0	237	21
30–39	239	18	0	0	239	21
40–49	207	16	0	0	207	18
50–59	189	14	0	0	189	17
60–69	130	10	0	0	130	11
≥ 70	134	10	0	0	134	12
Sex
Female	628	48	79	43	549	48
Male	690	52	103	57	587	52
Location
Head and neck	66	5	14	8	52	5
Extremity	861	65	114	63	747	66
Lungs and pleura	60	5	6	3	54	5
Trunk	190	14	27	15	163	14
Others	141	11	21	12	120	11
Quintile of the income domain of the index of multiple deprivation 2010
Least deprived	257	19	36	20	221	19
2	256	19	30	16	226	20
3	261	20	29	16	232	20
4	278	21	41	23	237	21
Most deprived	266	20	46	25	220	19
Stage at diagnosis^a
Total known	776		109		667
Localised	656	85	97	89	559	84
Metastatic	120	15	12	11	108	16
Did patients have surgery?
Surgically treated	550	71	84	77	466	70
Not surgically treated	226	29	25	23	201	30

There were no significant differences in the proportions of children or adults having any of the tabulated characteristics
^aBased on 2010 data to allow further inclusion of metastases