Table 1.

Patient characteristics: overall case series.

	Cancer patients
Features	Total	BC *	PCa §	Lung
	No. (%)	No. (%)	No. (%)	No. (%)
Overall	49	36	7	6
Median age, years (range)	62 (34–86)	59 (34–86)	70 (51–83)	60 (47–68)
Sex: males	12 (24.5)	0	7 (100)	5 (83.3)
females	37 (75.5)	36 (100)	0	1 (16.7)
Performance status
0	40 (81.6)	30 (83.3)	6 (85.7)	4 (66.7)
1	8 (16.3)	6 (16.7)	0	2 (33.3)
2	1 (2.1)	0	1 (14.3)	0

Note:

^*BC, breast cancer;

^§PCa, prostate cancer.