Table 1.

Characteristics of Surgical Procedure and Surgical Patients.

Characteristic	Value
Estimated blood loss
Patients included in analysis — no.	192
Median (interquartile range) — ml	200 (100–498)
Range — ml	5–3900
Transfusion — no./total no. (%)*	17/215 (8)
Bowel resection — no./total no. (%)	62/221 (28)
Stoma — no./total no. (%)	4/221 (2)
Perioperative thrombosis — no./total no. (%)†	3/225 (1)
Procedure aborted — no./total no. (%)	8/221 (4)
Surgery-related adverse events at 30 days — no./total no. (%)†	20/225 (9)
Death at 30 days — no./total no. (%)	1/225 (0.4)
Repeat laparotomy — no./total no. (%)	0/225

^*The amount of blood that was transfused ranged from 1 to 14 units.

^†Data are for cases that were considered by the investigator to be at least possibly due to surgery, that were of grade 3 or higher, and that occurred before the onset of chemotherapy.