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Table 1 Patient and treatment characteristics

From: Clinical results of conformal versus intensity-modulated radiotherapy using a focal simultaneous boost for muscle-invasive bladder cancer in elderly or medically unfit patients

Characteristics

Patients

n

(%)

Sex

  

 Female

29

(25)

 Male

89

(75)

WHO performance status

  

 0

13

(11)

 1

67

(57)

 2

35

(30)

 3

3

(2)

Tumor stagea

  

 2

37

(31)

 3

71

(60)

 4

10

(9)

Histological grade

  

 2

11

(9)

 3

107

(91)

Clinical lymph node involvementb

  

 No

109

(92)

 Yes

9

(8)

Hydronephrosis

  

 No

97

(82)

 Yes

21

(18)

Tumor size

  

 2–4 cm

37

(31)

 4–6 cm

58

(49)

 ≥6 cm

22

(19)

 Unknown

1

(1)

Tumor resection status

  

 Not resected

2

(2)

 Complete resection

13

(11)

 Incomplete resection

49

(41)

 Unknown

54

(46)

Planned radiotherapy dose

  

 55 Gy

61

(52)

 60 Gy

57

(48)

Radiotherapy technique

  

 3D-conformal

67

(57)

 IMRT

43

(36)

 VMAT

8

(7)

Focal simultaneous boost

  

 Concomitant

101

(86)

 Simultaneously integrated

17

(14)

Treated with image-guidance

  

 No

42

(36)

 Yes

76

(64)

  1. aAccording to UICC (TNM) classification
  2. bPatients with positive lymph nodes were not referred for radical radiotherapy. However, patients with one clinically dubious but not pathologically proven local node were included