Table VI.

Distribution of patients for each score of the Mizumoto scoring system.

Proportion of patients	Kagoshima all patients	Mizumoto (2008) radiation	Fisher's exact probability test	Kagoshima radiation	Fisher's exact probability test
Type of primary tumor			<0.05		<0.01
Favorable	34	174		8
Unfavorable	111	370		37
Performance status			0.29		0.08
0–2	84	331		22
3–4	61	213		23
Visceral metastasis			<0.01		<0.05
No	108	248		29
Yes	37	296		16
Previous chemotherapy			<0.01		<0.05
No	99	233		27
Yes	46	311		18
Total serum calcium, mg/dl			0.069		<0.05
≤10	137	490		45
>10	8	54		0
Multiple bone metastases			<0.01		<0.01
No	80	58		13
Yes	65	486		32
Age, years			<0.01		0.48
<70	92	402		34
≥71	53	142		11