Type distribution of human papillomavirus among adult women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer (stage 1b or higher) in New Zealand

Table 2 Comparison of Maori and non-Maori women with histologically confirmed ICC (N ^a = 227)

Features		Maori (N = 34)	non-Maori (N = 193)	P-value^d
		n^b(%^c)	n (%)
By age at diagnosis^*	Mean (SD^e)	48.7 (13.5)	51.5 (17.2)	0.507
(years)	Median	48.0	48.0
	Range	27–72	21–94
By histological diagnosis^#	ADC/ASC	9 (26.5)	59 (30.6)	0.630
	SCC	25 (73.5)	134 (69.4)
By cancer stage^#	Stage Ib	16 (47.1)	99 (51.3)	0.649
	Stage II and above	18 (52.9)	94 (48.7)

^anumber of women with the corresponding diagnosis.
^bnumber of women in each category.
^cpercentage of women in each category.
^dFisher’s Exact test for HPV prevalence in each histological diagnosis; Wilcoxon 2-Sample Test for age at diagnosis, Chi-square test for histological diagnosis and cancer stage.
^estandard deviation.
^#Hypothesis tested any association between the features and the ethnic groups.
^*Hypothesis tested any significant difference with respect to age between the ethnic groups.

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