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. 2015 Jul 9;107(10):djv188. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djv188

Table 1.

Characteristics of Patients By Clinical Trial

Clinical trial (DISEASE) 40101* breast cancer 50303 non- Hodgkin’s lymphoma 80101 gastric cancer 80203 metastatic colorectal cancer 80405 metastatic colon cancer 80303 pancreatic cancer 90401 prostate cancer Total
Characteristic No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%)
Sample size 3314 (39.2) 423 (5.0) 546 (6.5) 238 (2.8) 2283 (27.0) 602 (7.1) 1050 (12.4) 8456
Trial status Closed Open Closed Closed Closed Closed Closed ---
Race
 Caucasian 2759 (83.3) 339 (80.1) 403 (73.8) 207 (87.0) 1859 (81.4) 529 (87.9) 923 (87.9) 7019 (83.0)
 African American 362 (10.9) 47 (11.1) 71 (13.0) 27 (11.3) 273 (12.0) 49 (8.1) 110 (10.5) 939 (11.1)
 Asian 62 (1.9) 14 (3.3) 45 (8.2) 1 (0.4) 72 (3.2) 10 (1.7) 7 (0.7) 211 (2.5)
 Other 36 (1.1) 7 (1.7) 4 (0.7) 1 (0.4) 25 (1.1) 5 (0.8) 5 (0.5) 83 (1.0)
 Unknown 95 (2.9) 16 (3.8) 23 (4.2) 2 (0.8) 54 (2.4) 9 (1.5) 5 (0.5) 204 (2.4)
Minority†
 White 2759 (85.7) 339 (83.3) 403 (77.1) 207 (87.7) 1859 (83.4) 529 (89.2) 923 (88.3) 7019 (85.1)
 Nonwhite 460 (14.3) 68 (16.7) 120 (22.9) 29 (12.3) 370 (16.6) 64 (10.8) 122 (11.7) 1233 (14.9)
Sex
 Male NA 226 (53.4) 371 (67.9) 140 (58.8) 1324 (58.0) 329 (54.7) 1050 (100.0) 3440 (40.7)
 Female 3314 (100.0) 197 (46.6) 175 (32.1) 98 (41.2) 959 (42.0) 273 (45.3) NA 5016 (59.3)
Age, y
 Median 53 57.5 58.7 61.3 59.1 64.2 69 58.3
 Range 22.5 – 84.7 18.8 – 86.6 23.2 – 83.1 22 – 84.4 20.8 – 89.5 26.3 – 88.6 41.7 – 93.5 18.8–93.5
Institution
 CTSU 1755 (53.0) 186 (44.0) 384 (70.3) 123 (51.7) 1553 (68.0) 282 (46.8) 564 (53.7) 4847 (57.3)
 CALGB 1559 (47.0) 237 (56.0) 162 (29.7) 115 (48.3) 730 (32.0) 320 (53.0) 486 (46.3) 3609 (42.7)
Consent to pharmacogenomics 2768 (83.5) 384 (90.8) 416 (76.2) 219 (92.0) 1756 (76.9) 475 (78.9) 864 (82.3) 6882 (81.4)

* Trial 40101: patients registered before November 1, 2003 are not included in the statistical analysis, as the pharmacogenomics study was not open at that time.

† Eight thousand two hundred fifty-two patients with known racial status: white = Caucasian: nonwhite = African American, Asian, and other (Pacific Islander, Hawaiian, multirace).