Continuity and coordination of care in highly selected chronic cancer patients treated with multiple repeat radiation therapy

Table 1 Patient characteristics

Parameter	Data (n = 33 patients)
Age at diagnosis in years, median (range)	55 (32–75)
Female gender, n (%)	13 (39.4%)
Primary tumor histology, n (%)
Lung cancer (SCLC and NSCLC)	14 (42.4%)
Breast cancer	3 (9.1%)
Colorectal cancer	3 (9.1%)
Sarcoma	3 (9.1%)
Urinary tract cancer	3 (9.1%)
Other^a	7 (21.2%)
Alive at time of data analysis, n (%)^b	28 (84.8%)
ECOG-PS before last RT, median (range)	1 (0–2)

ECOG-PS = Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status; SCLC = Small cell lung cancer; NSCLC = None small cell lung cancer
^aIncludes malignant melanoma, head & neck, endocrine, primary brain entities as well as cancer of unknown origin
^bBetween time of official study initiation and time of data collection/analysis, 5 patients had died before being included in this study

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