Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants (n=22) as well as descriptive statistics of cytokine and receptor concentrations.
| Characteristic | N (%) |
|---|---|
| Age (mean (S.D.)) | 54.36 (12.15) |
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| Ethnicity | |
| Caucasian | 21 (95.5) |
| Not Caucasian | 1 (4.5) |
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| Education1 | |
| No high school diploma or GED | 1 (4.8) |
| High school diploma or GED | 1 (4.8) |
| 2–4 year college degree | 12 (57.1) |
| 4 year college degree | 1 (4.8) |
| Graduate degree | 6 (28.5) |
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| Staging | |
| Stage I | 1 (4.6) |
| Stage II | 7 (31.8) |
| Stage III | 5 (22.7) |
| Stage IV | 9 (40.9) |
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| Treatment Regiment2 | |
| Non-anthracycline-based treatment | 12 (57.1) |
| Anthracycline-based treatment | 9 (42.9) |
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| Number of Previous Cycles (median (min, max)) | 2 (1,6) |
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| Cytokine concentration (median (IQR)) | Median (IQR) |
| MCP1 | 123.47 (364.11) |
| TNF-α | 6.43 (4.63) |
| sTNFRI | 1721.89 (708.83) |
| sTNFRII | 6815.29 (2975.38) |
1
One missing value for education,
2
one missing value for treatment regimen.