Table 3.

Clinical evaluation score (CES) for discrimination between symptomatic and asymptomatic tumour patients.

Symptoms	Absent	Present
		Intermittent	Persistent
Headaches	0	1	2
Palpitations	0	1	2
Sweating	0	1	2
Tiredness	0	0.5	1
Nausea	0	0.5	1
Vertigo	0	0.5	1
Psychea	0	0.5	1
Weight loss	0	0.5	1
Flushing/pallor	0	0.5	1
Hypertension	0	Chronic: 1	Paroxysmal: 2
Diabetes	0	1

The scoring system assigns weighted values to 11 selected signs and symptoms (for details see ‘Materials and methods’ section). The maximum score sum value is 15. Values ≤2.5 and ≥3.0 define asymptomatic and symptomatic disease, respectively.

^aMental impairments, for example, anxiety, changes in mood and perception, nervousness, lethargy.