Acute Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression: Urgent Surgery versus Radiotherapy and Treatment Result Prediction versus Actual Results.

Curr Oncol · 2022 · PMC9601261 · PMID 36290860

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showed a trendp = 0.053so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

In comparison, the average Tokuhashi score showed a trend toward higher scores in the surgical group (7.8 ± 2.3 versus 6.5 ± 2.3, p = 0.053).

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

THE Kaplan–Meier survival curve analysis comparing surgery to radiotherapy showed a trend toward better survival in the surgery group but did not reach statistical significance ( Figure 4 ).

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