Table 3.
Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General scores by Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS) status
| KPS score | ECOG equivalent | N | Range | Sample Mean (SD) |
Adult cancer patients† Mean (SD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | 0 | 29 | 45–103 | 79 (14) | 88 (14) |
| 90 | 1 | 71 | 36–107 | 74 (14) | 79 (15) |
| 80 | 1 | 64 | 38–87 | 65 (11) | |
| 70 | 2 | 39 | 25–74 | 50 (11) | 71 (15) |
| 60 | 2 | 13 | 27–62 | 47 (11) | |
| 50 | 3 | 2 | 42–48 | 45 (4) | 61 (15)a |
| 40 | 3 | 3 | 36–42 | 40 (3) |
†
Adult cancer patient sample, all disease types, n=4672; From Pearman et al, Ambulatory Cancer and US General Population References Values and Cutoff Scores for the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy. Cancer 2014;(120), p290620
a
Collapsed variable (ECOG levels 3 and 4)
Abbreviations: ECOG=Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status Scale (range 0–4, higher scores reflect better functioning)