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Table 5 Point scoring system of predictive factors and median time to distant failure by risk zones

From: Novel risk scores for survival and intracranial failure in patients treated with radiosurgery alone to melanoma brain metastases

Prognostic factor

Multivariable analysis hazard ratio (95 % CI)

Point score

KPS

  

  >80

1.00

0

  ≤80

4.37 (1.58-12.06)

2

Extracranial disease

  

  absent

1.00

0

  active/stable

2.60 (1.29-5.27)

1

No. of lesions

  

  1

1.00

0

  2-3

2.30 (1.08-4.91)

1

  >3

5.27 (2.40-11.57)

2

Risk zone

Point ranges

No. of patients (%)

Median time to DF, mo (95 % CI)

Low

0

8 (9.3)

not reached

Moderate

1-2

46 (53.4)

4.80 (3.87-5.73)

High

3-5

23 (26.7)

2.00 (1.50-2.50)

  1. Abbreviations: CI 95 % confidence interval, KPS Karnofsky performance status, DF distant failure