Table 3.

Baseline sociodemographic and disease-related characteristics of patients to date

		Oberservational group (OG)	Intervention group (IG)
	n	35	27
Sociodemographic characteristics	Age in years	mean ± sd: 60.03 ± 12.41	mean ± sd: 62.96 ± 12.30
		range: 37–78	range: 40–82
	Sex	female: 16	female: 11
		male: 19	male: 16
	Nationality	German: 34	German: 26
		Polish: 1	Dutch: 1
Disease-related characteristics	Treatment	brachytherapy: 32	brachytherapy: 14
		endoresection: 0	endoresection: 4
		endoresection and Gamma-Knife: 1	endoresection and Gamma-Knife: 1
		cyber-Knife: 0	cyber-Knife: 1
		enucleation: 2	enucleation: 7
	Method of tumor sampling	-	pars plana vitrectomy: 15
			endoresection: 5
			enucleation: 7
	Utilization of psycho-oncological support	support offered by study program: 2	support offered by study program: 2
		other support: 2	other support: 1