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Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010 Apr 10;79(1):65–70. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.10.034

Table 1.

Patient- related characteristics with and without LNF (n = 91)

Variable	Without LNF No. of. patients (%)	With LNF No. of. patients (%)	p^* value
Age, median in years	63 (28–85)	57 (30–88)	0.3
Gender			0.3
Male	39 (72)	30 (81)
Smoking
Yes	42 (78)	29 (78)	1.00
Alcohol intake
Yes	42 (81)	28 (76)	0.61
Race
White	51 (94)	37 (100)	0.71
African-American	2 (4)	0 (0)
Asian	1 (2)	0 (0)

Abbreviations: LNF= low neck field.

p < 0.05 considered statistically significant.