Table 4.
Positive prognostic factors | Score (Points) |
No visceral metastases | 1 |
Absence of pathologic fracture | 1 |
solitary skeletal metastasis | 1 |
No lung cancer | 1 |
Primary tumor = breast, kidney, lymphoma, multiple myeloma | 1 |
Total score (points) | 1-yr survival rate (%) |
0-1 | 0% (< 6 mo survival) |
2-3 | 25% |
4-5 | 50% |