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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Nov 14.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Med. 2023 Jun 2;29(7):1728–1737. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02392-7

Table 1 ∣.

Patient demographics and disease characteristics at enrollment

All Cohort
A B
N % N % N %
Sex
Female 46 80.7 6 66.7 40 83.3
Male 11 19.3 3 33.3 8 16.7
ECOG performance status
0 25 43.9 5 55.6 20 41.7
1 28 49.1 4 44.4 24 50.0
2 4 7.0 0 0 4 8.3
Median age, years (range) 53 (28–80) 53 (34–75) 52 (28–80)
Initial primary tumor diagnosis
 Breast 35 61.4 4 44.4 31 64.6
 HR+ HER2+ 9 9
 HR+ HER2 7 7
 HR+ HER2 unknown 1 1
 HR− HER2+ 7 7
 Triple-negative 11 4 7
Melanoma 2 3.5 2 4.2
BRAF mutation 1 1
NSCLC-not otherwise specified 7 12.3 1 11.1 6 12.5
EGFR mutation 2 2
ALK rearrangement 1 1
Ovarian 1 1.8 1 11.1
Renal cell carcinoma 1 1.8 1 2.1
Extraosseous osteosarcoma 1 1.8 1 2.1
Esophageal 1 1.8 1 2.1
Neuroendocrine carcinoma 1 1.8 1 11.1
Pituitary 2 3.5 2 4.2
 Carcinoma 1 1.8 1 1.8
 Neuroendocrine tumor 1 1.8 1 1.8
Prostate 1 1.8 1 2.1
Small-cell lung cancer 2 3.5 1 11.1 1 2.1
Unknown primary 1 1.8 1 11.1
Advanced sinonasal ACC 1 1.8 1 2.1
Alveolar soft-part sarcoma 1 1.8 1 2.1
Extracranial metastatic disease? 40 70.2 8 88.9 32 66.7
 Lung 28 4 24
 Lymph node 22 8 14
 Bone 14 0 14
 Liver 9 3 6
 Visceral 7 2 5
 Adrenal 3 0 3
More than 1 BM?
 No 11 19.3 4 44.4 7 14.6
 Yes 46 80.7 5 55.6 41 83.4
Months since diagnosis of primary tumor, median (range) 36 (1–295) 23 (3–69) 38 (1–295)
Prior systemic therapies 50 87.7 8 88.9 42 87.5
 Median number of systemic therapies (range) 3 (1–16) 4 (1–6) 3 (1–16)
Prior BM-directed treatment
Intracranial radiation 41 71.9 0 0 41 85.4
 Median number of prior rounds of radiation (range) 1 (1–6)
Prior brain surgery 45 78.9 1a 11.1 44 91.7
 Median number of prior surgeries (range) 2 (1–4)
Prior systemic therapy 25 43.9 0 0 25 52.1
 Median number of systemic therapies (range) 2 (1–15)
 Chemotherapy 21 36.8 0 0 20 41.7
 Targeted therapy 16 28.1 0 0 16 33.3
 Antibody–drug conjugate 9 15.8 0 0 9 18.8
a

The one patient in cohort A who received prior brain surgery underwent a ventriculoperitoneal shunt and a craniotomy (for diagnostic purposes) and immediately afterwards, the patient enrolled onto the study for intracranial disease given multiple new untreated BMs. ACC, adenoid cystic carcinoma.