Table 1 Patient characteristics
Characteristics | No of patients |
---|---|
Sex | |
Male | 31 |
Female | 19 |
Age (years) | |
Median | 57 |
Range | 38–71 |
Performance status (ECOG) | |
0 | 7 |
1 | 43 |
Histology | |
Adenocarcinoma | 40 |
Squamous cell carcinoma | 8 |
Large cell carcinoma | 2 |
Stage | |
IIIB | 16 |
IV | 34 |
Site of metastasis | |
Lung | 10 |
Brain | 14 |
Bone | 10 |
Liver | 2 |
Adrenal | 4 |
Abdominal LN | 2 |
Carcinomatous pleurisy | 17 |