Table 1.
Patient characteristics and cancers.
| Characteristics | Patients |
|---|---|
| Treatment modality | |
| Proton therapy | 114 |
| Proton therapy mode | |
| Passive scattering | 94 |
| Pencil beam scanning | 20 |
| Gender | |
| Male | 18 |
| Female | 3 |
| Unspecified | 93 |
| Median age | 76 (range 66 – 90) |
| Pacing dependency status | |
| Dependent | 10 |
| Non-dependent | 40 |
| Unspecified | 64 |
| Cancer type | |
| Head and neck cancer | |
| Submandibular carcinoma | 1 |
| Laryngeal carcinoma | 1 |
| Skull base carcinoma | 1 |
| Thoracic cancer (lung, oesophagus, thymus) | |
| Lung carcinoma | 20 |
| Other (unspecified) | 27 |
| Abdominal cancer | |
| Pancreatic carcinoma | 1 |
| Hepatocellular carcinoma | 10 |
| Liver (unspecified) | 19 |
| Pelvic cancer | |
| Prostate carcinoma | 25 |
| Unclassified cancer | 9 |