Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients (N = 295).
| Lung Cancer (n = 142) |
Kidney Cancer (n = 50) |
Mammary Cancer (n = 41) |
Thyroid Cancer (n = 34) |
Prostate Cancer (n = 28) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | |||||
| M | 76 | 38 | 0 | 12 | 28 |
| F | 66 | 12 | 41 | 22 | 0 |
| Mean age (y) * | |||||
| M | 61.4 ± 9.7 (38–81) | 58.6 ± 9.0 (37–72) | - | 60.8 ± 6.8 (46–72) | 68.0 ± 11.0 (39–84) |
| F | 62.4 ± 9.5 (37–82) | 56.5 ± 12.6 (30–75) | 52.1 ± 8.7 (34–73) | 55.3 ± 13.3 (27–76) | - |
| Scan location | |||||
| Cervical spine | 49 | 24 | 13 | 20 | 7 |
| Thoracic spine | 25 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 11 |
| Lumbar spine | 65 | 14 | 18 | 10 | 10 |
| Sacral spine | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* Numbers in parentheses represent the data range.