Surgical Intervention in Very Elderly Patients with Spinal Ependymoma: A National Cancer Database Analysis

Cancers (Basel) · 2026 · PMC13297340

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.077so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Sex distribution differed numerically but did not reach statistical significance, with a higher proportion of female patients in the very elderly cohort compared with the comparison cohort (58% vs. 48%; p = 0.077).

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borderline significanceno p-value reported

Wide confidence intervals around several covariates and the borderline significance of myxopapillary histology illustrate this limitation.

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