Table 1.

Patient Demographics and Clinical Characteristics

	% (N = 100)
Age (years)
Median	53.5
Range	18–83
Gender
Female	59
Male	41
Primary cancer
Breast	40
Prostate	15
Kaposi Sarcoma	10
Lung	8
Othera	27
ECOG-PS
0–1	64
2	7
3–4	4
Unknown	25
Stage of disease
I	1
II	6
III	20
IV	61
Unstagedb	12
Treatment
Chemotherapy	97
Radiotherapy	7
Surgery	1
Patient status
Existing	79
New	21
Number of chemotherapy cycles received (N = 73)
Mean ± SD	4.71 ± 2.88
Range	1–14

^aOther cancers include colon, esophagus, pancreas, rectum

^b Includes Kaposi sarcoma patients, where there is no officially accepted system for staging (n = 10), and new patients that did not have their disease staged yet (n = 2)