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Published in final edited form as: J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2011 Mar;9(3):268–278. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2011.0026

Table 2.

Number of Symptoms on Survey Checklists

Cancer Type	Number of Symptoms or Concerns Presented on Survey^*	Minimum Number of Patients Needed to Select an Item in Their “Top 5” to be Considered Greater Than Chance^†
Bladder	28	6
Brain	40	7
Breast	23	12
Colorectal	26	10
Head and neck	28	9
Hepatobiliary	35	8
Kidney	26	10
Lung	28	9
Lymphoma	39	7
Ovarian	30	9
Prostate	31	9

Three items were added to each checklist partway through the study.

^†

Number of patients needed is the first whole number larger than the product of 5 divided by the number of items on the checklist multiplied by the number of patients.