Table 1 Patient characteristics for Swedish PMBL patients diagnosed 2007–2018 overall and stratified by immunochemotherapy regimen and radiotherapy.

From: Real-world data on treatment and outcomes of patients with primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma: a Swedish lymphoma register study

 

Whole cohort N (%)

Immunochemotherapy regimen

Radiotherapy

  

R-CHOEP-14

R-CHOP-14/21

R-Hyper-CVAD

DA-EPOCH-R

Yes

No

N

172

90

37

16

11

26

129

 Median age (range)

37.5 (18–85)

35 (18–74)

49 (18–83)

38 (21–51)

41 (23–57)

38.5 (20–70)

36 (18–83)

Sex

 Men

74 (43)

38 (42)

18 (49)

5 (31)

5 (45)

15 (58)

51 (40)

 Women

98 (57)

52 (58)

19 (51)

11 (69)

6 (55)

11 (42)

78 (60)

WHO Performance status

 0–1

152 (88)

81 (90)

30 (81)

15 (94)

10 (91)

23 (88)

114 (88)

Ann Arbor Stagea

 I–II

116 (67)

64 (71)

26 (70)

8 (50)

8 (73)

22 (85)

85 (66)

S-LDH

 Elevated

154 (90)

82 (91)

30 (81)

15 (94)

11 (100)

25 (96)

113 (88)

Extranodal sites

 No

128 (74)

69 (77)

30 (81)

12 (75)

9 (82)

20 (77)

101 (78)

aaIPI

 0–1

111 (64)

61 (68)

24 (65)

9 (56)

7 (64)

20 (77)

82 (64)

 2–3

61 (36)

29 (32)

13 (35)

7 (44)

4 (36)

6 (23)

47 (36)

B-symptomsb

 Yes

78 (45)

42 (47)

17 (46)

7 (44)

5 (45)

16 (62)

56 (43)

Bulky diseasec

 Yes

119 (69)

68 (76)

23 (62)

15 (94)

5 (45)

20 (77)

91 (70)

Radiotherapy

 No

129 (83)

74 (82)

32 (86)

14 (88)

8 (72)

0 (0)

129 (100)

 Yes

26 (17)

16 (18)

5 (14)

2(12)

3 (27)

26 (100)

0 (0)

  1. Sixteen patients (9%) with missing treatment data. One patient managed with VACOP-B not included in the table to preserve anonymity.
  2. LDH lactate Dehydrogenase, aaIPI age-adjusted International Prognostic Index.
  3. aThree patients had missing data regarding stage.
  4. bEight patients had missing data regarding B-symptoms.
  5. cSeven patients had missing data regarding bulky disease.