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. 2012 Aug 10;1(3):88–94. doi: 10.1016/j.jbo.2012.07.002

Table 1.

Patient baseline demographics and disease characteristics (ITT).

Total (N=397) PC (n=299) BC (n=98)
Median age, years (range) 70 (30–85) 71 (48–85) 61 (30–82)
Sex, n (%)
 Male 299 (75.3) 299 (100) 0
 Female 98 (24.7) 0 98 (100)
Race, n (%)
 Caucasian 383 (96.5) 292 (97.7) 91 (92.9)
 Asian 1 (0.3) 0 1 (1.0)
 Other 13 (3.3) 7 (2.3) 6 (6.1)
Prior therapy, n (%)
 Radiation 129 (32.5) 75 (25.1) 54 (55.1)
 Chemotherapy 133 (33.5) 65 (21.7) 68 (69.4)
 Hormone therapy 342 (86.1) 270 (90.3) 72 (73.5)
 Chemo- and hormone therapy 111 (28) 61 (20.4) 50 (51.0)
 Surgery 215 (54.2) 133 (44.2) 82 (82.8)
Mean time from diagnosis to study entry, days (SD) 155.4 (366.4) 174.3 (382.2) 97.7 (308.0)



Extent of bone disease, n (%)
 Normal bone scan 3 (0.8) 2 (0.7) 1 (1.0)
 <6 Bone lesions 195 (49.1) 131 (43.8) 64 (65.3)
 6–20 Bone lesions 118 (29.7) 93 (31.1) 25 (25.5)
 >20 Bone lesions but<super scan 54 (13.6) 48 (16.1) 6 (6.1)
 Super scan (75% of ribs, vertebrae, and pelvic bones have lesions) 24 (6.0) 23 (7.7) 1 (1.0)



Sites of extraskeletal metastases, n (%)
 Lung 35 (8.8) 12 (4) 23 (23.5)
 Liver 24 (6.0) 4 (1.3) 20 (20.4)
 Lymph nodes 98 (24.7) 80 (26.8) 18 (18.4)
 Other 19 (4.8) 10 (3.3) 9 (9.2)
 Soft tissue 6 (1.5) 3 (1.0) 3 (3.1)
 Not evaluated 251 (63.2) 207 (69.2) 44 (44.9)
Bone turnover marker levels, mean (SD) (n=387) (n=294) (n=93)
 P1NP (ng/mL) 227.1 (409.5) 268 (458.8) 97.9 (104)
 CTX (ng/mL) 0.5 (0.53) 0.5 (0.58) 0.3 (0.28)
 OPG (pmol/L) 5.6 (2.2) 5.8 (2.4) 5.1 (1.7)
 RANKL (pmol/L) 0.1 (0.27) 0.1 (0.29) 0.1 (0.20)
PSA levels, mean (SD) (n=294) (n=294) N/A
 PSA (μg/L) 168.5 (531.1) 168.5 (531.1) N/A

BC, breast cancer; CTX, serum C-terminal cross-linking telopeptide of type I collagen; ITT, intent-to-treat population; N/A, not applicable; OPG, osteoprotegerin; P1NP, amino-terminal propeptide of type I collagen; PC, prostate cancer; PSA, prostate-specific antigen; RANKL, receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand; SD, standard deviation.