Pancreatic head vs pancreatic body/tail cancer: Are they different?

Table 1 Patient characteristics by location

	Total	Head	Body/tail	P value
	n = 101, %	n = 67, %	n = 34, %
Age at diagnosis	63.90 (13.03)	61.49 (13.96)	68.97 (9.12)	0.010
Gender				0.095
Female	51 (50.50)	38 (56.72)	13 (38.24)
Male	50 (49.50)	29 (43.28)	21 (61.76)
Ethnicity				0.53
Caucasian	76 (75.25)	48 (71.64)	28 (82.35)
Black	11 (10.89)	8 (11.94)	3 (8.82)
Other	14 (13.86)	11 (16.42)	3 (8.82)
Pathologic initial stage				0.006
I	5 (4.95)	3 (4.48)	2 (5.88)
II	19 (18.81)	18 (26.87)	1 (2.94)
III	17 (16.83)	13 (19.40)	4 (11.76)
IV	51 (50.50)	28 (41.79)	23 (67.65)
Missing	9 (8.91)	5 (7.46)	4 (11.76)
Surgical resection				0.025
Yes	34 (33.66)	28 (41.79)	6 (17.65)
No	67 (66.34)	39 (58.21)	28 (82.35)