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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015 May 30;50(4):470–479.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.04.016

Table 2.

Patient Characteristics

RTOG
(N=151)
SWOG
(N=322)
NCCTG
(N=540)
Total
(N=1013)
Age
    Mean (SD) 62.7 (9.23) 65.6 (10.70) 65.3 (10.26) 65.0 (10.29)
    Median 63.0 67.0 66.0 66.0

Sex
    Female 54 (35.8%) 119 (37%) 206 (38.1%) 379 (37.4%)
    Male 97 (64.2%) 203 (63%) 334 (61.9%) 634 (62.6%)

Race
    Missing/Unknown/Other 4 (2.6%) 2 (0.6%) 19 (3.5%) 25 (2.5%)
    Asian 4 (2.6%) 3 (0.9%) 1 (0.2%) 8 (0.8%)
    Black 24 (15.9%) 46 (14.3%) 8 (1.5%) 78 (7.8%)
    Hispanic 4 (2.6%) 6 (1.9%) 9 (1.7%) 19 (1.9%)
    Native American 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 5 (0.9%) 5 (0.5%)
    White 115 (76.2%) 265 (82.3%) 498 (92.2%) 878 (86.7%)

RX
    Currently Receiving Chemotherapy 22 (14.6%) 322 (100%) 449 (83.1%) 793 (78.3%)
    Undergone Surgery 18 (11.9%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 18 (1.8%)
    Currently on RT 111 (73.5%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 111 (11%)
    Placebo 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 91 (16.9%) 91 (9%)

Follow-up Status
    Alive 24 (15.9%) 40 (12.4%) 36 (6.7%) 100 (9.9%)
    Dead 127 (84.1%) 282 (87.6%) 504 (93.3%) 913 (90.1%)

Baseline Uniscale
    N 4 301 465 770
    Mean (SD) 32.5 (23.6) 51.7 (35.0) 72.6 (22.2) 64.2 (29.8)

Baseline FACT-L Total Score
    N 191 156 347
    Mean (SD) 65.3 (13.5) 78.7 (11.8) 71.3 (14.4)

Baseline FLIC Total Score
    N 16 16
    Mean (SD) 70.5 (14.8) 70.5 (14.8)

Baseline LCSS Score
    N 4 128 132
    Mean (SD) 93.3 (2.4) 68.2 (25.0) 69.0 (25.0)

Baseline SDS Average
    N 53 53
    Mean (SD) 78.4 (12.5) 78.4 (12.5)