Table 1 Baseline patient characteristics
From: Bone resorption predicts for skeletal complications in metastatic bone disease
Tumour type | Number of patients | Median age in years | Median time from cancer diagnosis to diagnosis of bone metastasis in months (range) | Time from diagnosis of bone metastasis to baseline Ntx in months (range) | Number of patients with metastasis at other sites at baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Breast | 91 | 55.0 | 37.0 (0.0, 187.1) | 9.9 (0.0, 65.1) | 24 |
Prostate | 26 | 69.5 | 3.5 (0.0, 96.0)a | 21.5 (4.0, 101.0) | 3 |
Otherb | 4 | 48.0 | 8.5 (1.0, 206.0) | 12.5 (1.0, 19.3) | 2 |
Total | 121 | 56.0 | 30.5 (0.0, 206.0) | 10.4 (0.0, 101.0) | 29 |
