Symptoms reported by untreated cancer patients and men without cancer.
| Adolfsson, 199852 (139 patients with untreated cancer, 314 controls without cancer) | Fransson, 200154 (49 patients with untreated cancer, 68 controls without cancer) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symptom | Number of cancer patients with symptom (%) | Number of controls with symptom (%) | Likelihood ratio (95% CI)a | P-valuea | Mean score for cancer patientsa | Mean score for controls | P-valuea |
| Hesitancy | 47/125 (38) | 65/295 (22) | 1.7 (1.3 to 2.3) | 0.001 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.06 |
| Leakage | 37/122 (30) | 42/291 (14) | 2.1 (1.5 to 3.0) | <0.001 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.04 |
| Urgency | 42/121 (35) | 39/283 (14) | 2.5 (1.8, 3.6) | <0.001 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.002 |
| Dysuria | 14/122 (12) | 8/285 (3) | 4.1 (1.9 to 8.7) | 0.002 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1 |
| Weak stream | 61/124 (49) | 124/286 (43) | 1.1 (0.9 to 1.5) | 0.25 | - | - | - |
| Frequency | - | - | - | - | 7.6 | 6.3 | <0.001 |
↵aP-values, likelihood ratios and CI recalculated from the data given in the papers for these two groups of interest: χ2 for Adolfsson, t-test for Fransson.