Table 1.
Patient Characteristics and Reported Discomforts Possibly Caused by Bryophyllum pinnatuma.
| N (or mean ± SD) | |
|---|---|
| Age (years) | 61 ± 10.4 |
| Female patients | 17 |
| Household structure | 14 |
| Lives alone | 6 |
| Lives with partner | 10 |
| Lives with partner and children | 3 |
| Lives with a daughter | 1 |
| BMI (n = 17) | 20 ± 4.8 |
| Hormonal situation (women only) | |
| Premenopausal | 2 |
| Perimenopausal | 1 |
| Postmenopausal | 14 |
| NK | 3 |
| Duration of sleep problems (n = 17, in years) | 2 ± 2.1b |
| Cancer type | |
| Breast | 12 |
| Prostate | 2 |
| Colon | 2 |
| Lung | 1 |
| Uterus sarcoma | 1 |
| Oral | 1 |
| Hairy cell leukemia | 1 |
| Cancer disease activity | |
| Complete remission | 10 |
| Partial remission | 2 |
| Small change | 3 |
| Progression | 2 |
| ECOG-Karnofsky index | |
| 0 | 16 |
| 1 | 4 |
| Time since cancer diagnosis (years) | 5 ± 6.2 |
| Anticancer therapies (before last month) | |
| Surgery | 14 |
| Chemotherapy | 7 |
| Radiation therapy | 3 |
| Hormonal therapy | 7 |
| Mistletoe therapy | 13 |
| Hyperthermia | 5 |
| Anticancer therapies (last month) | |
| Surgery | 1 |
| Chemotherapy | 3 |
| Radiation therapy | 3 |
| Hormonal therapy | 3 |
| Mistletoe therapy | 11 |
| Hyperthermia | 5 |
| Anticancer therapies (during the study) | |
| Surgery | 1 |
| Chemotherapy | 3 |
| Radiation therapy | 1 |
| Hormonal therapy | 6 |
| Mistletoe therapy | 16 |
| Hyperthermia | 4 |
| Additional diseases | 13 |
| Hypertonia | 6 |
| Psychological diseases | 4 |
| Allergies | 5 |
| Others | 4 |
| Current additional medications | 15 |
| High blood pressure medications | 6 |
| Cholesterol-lowering drugs | 3 |
| Soporifics | 3 |
| Analgesics | 2 |
| Others | 11 |
| Discomforts possibly caused by B pinnatum |
6 |
| Fatigue | 3 |
| Dry throat | 1 |
| Agitation | 1 |
| Difficult digestion | 1 |
Abbreviations: NK, not known; BMI, body mass index; ECOG, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group index.
a
N = 20; except when indicated.
b
One patient answered “several weeks,” 2 patients wrote “several years”; for the calculations, “several” was replaced by “2”; median was 1 year.