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Table 1 Patients characteristics

From: Helical tomotherapy in the treatment of pediatric malignancies: a preliminary report of feasibility and acute toxicity

Characteristics

n (%)

Gender

Male

36 (55%)

 

Female

30 (45%)

  

Medulloblastoma

16 (24%)

  

Ependymoma and ependymoblastoma

8 (12%)

  

Glioma

7 (11%)

 

CNS

Pineoblastoma

2 (3%)

  

Teratoid/Rhabdoid tumor

2 (3%)

  

Germinal tumor

1 (1%)

  

Choroid plexus tumor

1 (1%)

  

Craniopharyngioma

1 (1%)

Tumor site/histology

Abdomen

Neuroblastoma

7 (11%)

  

Nephroblastoma

2 (3%)

  

Rhabdomyosarcoma

1 (1%)

  

Clear cell sarcoma

1 (1%)

 

Thorax

Ewing sarcoma

1 (1%)

  

Hodgkin lymphoma

1 (1%)

  

PNET (Askin's) tumor

1 (1%)

  

Rhabdomyosarcoma

1 (1%)

 

Pelvis

Rhabdomyosarcoma

2 (3%)

  

Ewing sarcoma

1 (1%)

  

PNET tumor

1 (1%)

 

Other sites

Orbit

Melanoma

1 (1%)

   

Rhabdomyosarcoma

1 (1%)

   

PNET tumor

1 (1%)

  

Spine

Neuroblastoma

2 (3%)

  

Skull base

Chordoma

1 (3%)

  

Oropharynx

Rhabdomyosarcoma

1 (1%)

  

Extremity

Rhabdomyosarcoma

1 (1%)

  

Sub- and supradiaphragmatic Hodgkin lymphoma

1 (1%)