Table 1.
Demographics
| Demographics | n (%) |
|---|---|
| Gender | |
| Male | 18 (64) |
| Female | 10 (36) |
| Diagnosis | |
| Metastatic melanoma | 8 (29) |
| Renal carcinoma | 2 (7) |
| Pancreatic cancer | 2 (7) |
| Adrenal cell carcinoma | 1 (3.5) |
| Multiple myeloma | 1 (3.5) |
| Synovial sarcoma | 1 (3.5) |
| Carcinoid syndrome | 1 (3.5) |
| Thyroid cancer | 1 (3.5) |
| Leukemia | 1 (3.5) |
| Secondary myelofibrosis | 1 (3.5) |
| Adult T-cell lymphoma and leukemia | 1 (3.5) |
| Marginal zone lymphoma | 1 (3.5) |
| Gastrointestinal stromal tumor | 1 (3.5) |
| Refractory follicular lymphoma | 1 (3.5) |
| Cervical cancer | 1 (3.5) |
| Von-Hippel Lindau disease | 1 (3.5) |
| X-linked combined severe immunodeficiency | 1 (3.5) |
| Aplastic anemia | 1 (3.5) |
| Chronic granulomatous disease | 1 (3.5) |
| Age (years), mean (SD) | 47 (15) |
| Reference episode temperature,a mean (SD) | 38.5 (0.7) |
| Highest temperature, mean (SD) | 38.6 (0.7) |
| Ethnicity | |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 28 (100) |
| Race | |
| White | 24 (86) |
| Black/African American | 4 (14) |
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The reference episode temperature is the temperature, necessarily ≥38 C, that qualified patients for the study. The highest temperature is the reference episode temperature or any temperature 12 hours prior that was higher.