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Table 1 Patient Characteristics

From: Clinically significant bleeding in incurable cancer patients: effectiveness of hemostatic radiotherapy

Characteristics (N=62)

 

n (%)

Age (years)

  

 Median (range)

66 (37–93)

 

Sex

  

 Female

 

32 (52)

 Male

 

30 (48)

Karnowsky PS

  

 Median (range)

40 (20–80)

 

 ≤ 40

 

32 (52)

 ≥ 50

 

30 (48)

Site*

  

 Bladder

 

10 (16)

 Lung (NSCLC)

 

9 (15)

 Endometrial

 

8 (13)

 Prostate

 

6 (10)

 Cervical

 

6 (10)

 Gastric

 

6 (10)

 Ovarial

 

6 (10)

 Colorectal

 

3 (5)

 Others#

 

8 (13)

Histology+

  

 Adenocarcinoma

 

38 (65)

 Squamous cell carcinoma

 

6 (10)

 Transitional cell carcinoma

 

9 (15)

 Others

 

6 (10)

Tumor-classification+

  

 T0

 

2 (3)

 T3

 

2 (3)

 T4

 

55 (94)

Metastasis+

  

 No

 

1 (2)

 Yes

 

52 (88)

 Unknown

 

6 (10)

Liver metastasis+

  

 No

 

43 (73)

 Yes

 

16 (27)

Bleeding Site+

  

 Primary tumor

 

48 (81)

 Metastasis

 

11 (19)

Symptom

  

 Vaginal bleeding

 

19 (31)

 Hematuria

 

17 (27)

 Hemoptysis

 

10 (16)

 Others

 

16 (26)

First diagnosis to hRT (months)

  

 Median (range)

11 (0.3-183)

 
  1. Abbreviations: PS=performance status; NSCLC=non-small cell lung cancer; hRT=hemostatic radiotherapy; *Site of the primary tumor; # including esophageal (n=2), sarcoma (n=1), multiple myeloma (n=1), kidney cancer (n=1), non-hodgkin lymphoma (n=1), breast cancer (n=1) and pseudomyxoma peritonei (n=1); +Three patients were not applicable having stage IV non-hodgkin lymphoma according to Ann Arbor (n=1) or stage III multiple myeloma according to Durie and Salmon (n=1) or benign pseudomyxoma peritonei (n=59).