Skip to main content
. 2012 Jun 11;30(21):2684–2690. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2011.36.4752

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

Characteristic Patients With Quantifiable Change by RECIST (n = 468)
Patients With Best Response of New Lesion (ie, unquantifiable; n = 102)
No. of Patients % No. of Patients %
Age, years
    Median 57 56
    Range 2-88 33-82
Sex
    Male 265 56.6 54 52.9
    Female 203 43.4 48 47.1
Race
    White 367 78.4 79 77.5
    Black 40 8.5 8 7.8
    Hispanic 38 8.1 13 12.7
    Asian 21 4.5 2 2.0
    Other 2 0.5 0 0.0
Performance status
    0 155 33.1 33 32.5
    1 295 63.0 61 59.8
    ≥ 2 18 3.8 8 7.8
Tumor type
    Breast, n = 47 32 6.8 15 14.7
    GI, n = 177 137 29.3 40 39.2
    Genitourinary, n = 51 43 9.2 8 7.8
    Gynecologic, n = 17 13 2.8 4 3.9
    Head and neck, n = 41 35 7.5 6 5.9
    Lymphoma/myeloma, n = 19 8 1.7 1 1.0
    Melanoma, n = 52 40 8.5 12 11.7
    Sarcoma, n = 37 36 7.7 1 1.0
    Thoracic, n = 45 38 8.1 7 6.7
    All other, n = 157 86 18.4 8 7.8
Total No. of prior treatments
    Mean 5.8 6.2
    SD 2.7 3.1
    Systemic treatments
        Mean 3.6 4.1
        SD 2.3 2.6
    Radiation treatments
        Mean 0.6 0.7
        SD 0.8 1.0
    Surgical treatments
        Mean 1.4 1.2
        SD 1.3 0.9
    Other treatments*
        Mean 0.2 0.2
        SD 0.6 0.8
Time from cancer diagnosis to C1D1 of study treatment, years
    Median 3.7 2.8
    Range 0.1-36.7 0.1-26.8
Time from end of last treatment to C1D1 of trial, months
    Median 2.0 1.7
    Range 0.0-269.9 0.0-20.2
Time from C1D1 of study treatment to best RECIST response, days
    Median 59 57
    Range 25-854 25-79

Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.

*

Concurrent chemotherapy with radiation therapy is categorized as other treatments.

C1D1 is cycle 1, day 1 of phase I treatment.

Two patients (one in each group) had no therapy before phase I treatment.