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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2010 May;39(5):859–871. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2009.09.019

Table 1.

Sociodemographic and Disease-Specific Characteristics of Sample

Variable Symptom Cluster Total
Asymptomatic Symptomatic Fatigue
Gender (%)
    Male 71 67 75 72
    Female 29 33 25 28
Age (years)*
    Mean 67.5 60.4 67.5 65
    Range 30–90 22–84 31–88 22–90
Ethnicity (%)a
    Caucasian 91 94 90 91
    African American 5 2 7 6
    Asian/Pacific Islander 3 6 2 2
    Hispanic 1 0 1 1
Diagnosis (%)
    Hepatocellular 88 75 87 84
    Cholangio 3 9 6 5
    Neuroendocrine 1 4 3 3
    Gallbladder 4 10 4 6
    Liver metastases 4 2 0 2
Hepatitis (%)b
    B 7.6 5.9 1.4 6
    C 24.1 17.6 19.2 28
    B and C 3.8 5.9 9.6 8
Cirrhosis (%)b 57 49 60 45
Tumor Size (cm)
    Median 5 6.2 6 7
    Range 0.9–21 1–22 0–18 0.5–22
Number of Lesions
    Median 2 3 2 3
    Range 1–6 1–6 1–6 1–6
Vascular invasion (%) 25.3 27.5 35.6 24
Vascularity (%)
    Hypervascular 78 74 79 77
    Hypovascular 20 15 17 17
    Mixed 2 10 4 6
Treatment (%)
    Transarterial Infusion
        Chemotherapy 80 83 69 77
        90-Yttrium 20 17 30 23
Survival (months)
    Median 9.9 8.8 7.5 8
    Range 0.4–52 0.9–63.5 0.8–91.2 0.4–91.2
a

P<0.001.

b

P<0.01.