TABLE I.
Baseline patient characteristics
| Characteristic | Group |
|
|---|---|---|
| Pre-intervention | Post-intervention | |
| Patients (n) | 208 | 77 |
| Average age (years) | 58 | 54 |
| Sex [n (%)] | ||
| Female | 141 (68) | 53 (69) |
| Male | 67 (32) | 24 (31) |
| Cancer type [n (%a)] | ||
| Solid tumours | 163 (78) | 60 (78) |
| Breast | 94 (45) | 31 (40) |
| Lung | 14 (7) | 3 (4) |
| Colorectal | 20 (10) | 20 (26) |
| Other gastrointestinal | 14 (7) | 5 (6) |
| Genitourinary | 7 (3) | 0 (0) |
| Kaposi sarcoma | 7 (3) | 1 (1) |
| Others | 7 (3) | 0 (0) |
| Hematologic cancers | 45 (22) | 17 (22) |
| Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 36 (17) | 11 (14) |
| Hodgkin lymphoma | 6 (3) | 4 (5) |
| Multiple myeloma | 3 (1) | 1 (1) |
| Others | 0 (0) | 1 (1) |
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Because of rounding, percentages may not add to exactly 100%.