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Table 4 Distribution of medical costs of independent variables

From: Incidence, cost and gender differences of oropharyngeal and noncervical anogenital cancers in South Korea

Variable

Oropharynx (C01, 09, 10) a

Anus (C21)

Mean

p*

Median

p*

Mean

p*

Median

p*

Sex

 Female

16,837

<.001 c

15,422

<.001 d

13,528

0.295 c

10,387

0.045 d

 Male

22,056

 

20,475

 

13,003

 

9196

 

Age

 ≤65

22,195

<.001 c

20,644

<.001 d

14,933

<.001 c

10,978

<.001 d

 > 65

19,192

 

17,087

 

11,654

 

8710

 

Year

 2013

18,867

0.001 e

17,874

<.001 f

10,662

<.001 e

8195

<.001 f

 2014

21,624

 

20,111

 

12,630

 

10,105

 

 2015

21,668

 

20,408

 

13,737

 

9025

 

 2016

21,870

 

20,759

 

15,911

 

12,230

 

Surgery

 Inexperience

12,243

<.001 c

10,840

<.001 d

7490

<.001 c

3735

<.001 d

 Experience

24,011

 

22,210

 

16,216

 

12,744

 

Health plan type

 Healthcare insurance

21,045

0.960 c

19,762

0.348 d

13,120

0.131 c

9777

0.222 d

 Medicaid, etc. b

20,990

 

18,106

 

14,655

 

10,399

 

CCI

 0

22,718

<.001 e

21,535

<.001 f

15,040

<.001 e

12,418

<.001 f

 1

23,993

 

22,091

 

15,101

 

12,154

 

 2

18,567

 

16,604

 

11,303

 

7729

 

 3

20,095

 

18,470

 

13,158

 

8781

 
  1. Unit: US dollar
  2. CCI Charlson Comorbidity Index
  3. * p < 0.05
  4. a Oropharyngeal cancer, including the base of tongue and tonsil
  5. b War veteran
  6. cp-value estimated by t-test
  7. dp-value estimated by Wilcoxon test
  8. ep-value estimated by ANOVA test
  9. f p-value estimated by Kruskal-Wallis test
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