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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 31.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2018 Aug 23;379(8):722–730. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1805453

Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of the Patients at Baseline.*

Characteristic Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab (N = 94)
Median age (range) — yr 59 (22–81)
Sex — no. (%)
 Male 65 (69)
 Female 29 (31)
Lactate dehydrogenase — no. (%)
 At or below the upper limit of the normal range 55 (59)
 Above the upper limit of the normal range 39 (41)
PD-L1 expression — no. (%)
 ≥1% 41 (44)
 <1% 34 (36)
 Could not be evaluated 19 (20)
Stereotactic radiotherapy before study entry — no. (%)
 Yes 8 (9)
 No 86 (91)
No. of target lesions at pretreatment tumor assessment — no. of patients (%)
 No lesions 1 (1)
 1 Lesion 49 (52)
 2 Lesions 23 (24)
 ≥3 Lesions 21 (22)
*

Percentages may not total 100 because of rounding. PD-L1 denotes programmed death ligand 1.

The inclusion of this patient was a protocol deviation.