Table 2 Patient characteristics

From: Impacts of excision repair cross-complementing gene 1 (ERCC1), dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, and epidermal growth factor receptor on the outcomes of patients with advanced gastric cancer

 

Patients

Characteristic

No.

%

All patients

140

 

Sex

  

 Male

108

77

 Female

32

23

Age (years)

  

 Median

65

 

 Range

18–87

 

ECOG performance status

  

 0

70

50

 1

62

44

 2

8

6

Metastatic site

  

 Lymph nodes

87

62

 Peritoneum

43

31

 Liver

43

31

 Lung

8

6

 Other

9

6

Histological type

  

 Intestinal

60

43

 Diffuse

80

57

First-line chemotherapy regimen

 

(Response rate a (95% CI))

 S-1

69

34.8 (23.7–47.2)

 Cisplatin+S-1

14

35.7 (12.8–64.9)

 Cisplatin+irinotecan

29

44.8 (26.5–64.3)

 5-FU

23

4.3 (0.1–22.0)

 5-FU+methotrexate

2

0

 Paclitaxel

2

50.0 (1.3–98.7)

 Uracil/ftorafur (UFT®)

1

0

  1. Abbreviation: ECOG=Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group.
  2. aResponse rate was calculated as the ratio of (CR+PR)/(CR+PR+NC+PD).