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. 2008 Oct 27;8:311. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-311

Table 1.

Case numbers of the cohorts in the study

Melanoma Breast cancer Prostate cancer
N % N % N %

Basic population
(cohort A)
1,503 100 5,248 100 4,738 100
non eligible patients
(cohort B)
741 49.3 2,882 54.9 2,512 53.0
eligible patients
(cohort C)
762 50.7 2,366 45.1 2,226 47.0
Participants
(cohort F)
608 40.5 *
[79.8]
1,927 36.7 *
[81.4]
1,750 36.9 *
[78.6]
Non-respondents
(cohort E)
154 10.2
[20.2]
439 8.4
[18.6]
476 10.0
[21.4]
Non-participants
(cohort D)
895 59.5 3,321 63.3 2,988 63.1

* The value without parenthesis describes the study size (Percentage of the participants to the basic population). The value with parenthesis describes the recruiting efficiency proportion (Percentage of the participants to the eligible patients)