Table 1.
Overall patient characteristics
| Characteristics | n (%) |
| Patients | 783 (100) |
| Median time from diagnosis with GIST (months) | 57 |
| Gender | |
| Men | 444 (57) |
| Women | 339 (43) |
| Age at diagnosis of GIST (years) | |
| Mean | 56.7 |
| Range | 17–91 |
| Race | |
| White | 603 (77) |
| Black | 74 (9) |
| Hispanic | 73 (9) |
| Others | 33 (5) |
| Treated with imatinib | |
| Yes | 443 (57) |
| No | 340 (43) |
| Vital status | |
| Alive | 524 (67) |
| Dead | 259 (33) |
| GIST site | |
| Stomach | 386 (49) |
| Small intestine | 273 (35) |
| Retroperitoneal space | 56 (7) |
| Colorectal | 50 (6) |
| Omentum/mesentery | 18 (2) |
| GIST size (cm) | |
| <5 | 200 (26) |
| 5–10 | 206 (26) |
| >10 | 196 (25) |
| No data | 181 (23) |
GIST, gastrointestinal stromal tumor.