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. 2021 Aug 6;21:902. doi: 10.1186/s12885-021-08639-1

Table 2.

Summary of collated participant characteristics of participants included in present review

Vigushin et al. 1998 [22] Ripple et al. 1998 [23] (n = 18) Ripple et al. 2000 [24] (n = 16) Bailey et al. 2008 [25] (n = 14) Miller et al. 2013 [26] (n = 43) Total
(N = 133)
Phase 1 (n = 32) Phase 2
(n = 10)
Enrolled participants; n 32 10 18 19 14 43 136
Evaluable participants n (%) 32 (100) 10 (100) 16 (88.9) 16 (84.2) 14 (100) 40 (93.0) 128 (94.1)
Age; years
 Median 57 57 58.6a 50 58 58.5
 Range 35–78 40–82 23–82 24–79 40–90 23–90
Sex; n (%)
 Male 15 (46.9) 0 (0) 8 (44.4) 13 (81.3) 0 (0) 0 (0) 36 (27.1)
 Female 17 (53.1) 10 (100) 10 (55.6) 6 (37.5) 14 (100) 40 (100) 97 (72.9)
Breast cancer; n (%) 16 (50.0) 10 (100) 2 (11.1) 1(6.3) 14 (100) 40 (100) 83 (62.4)
Prior therapies
 Surgery 29 (90.6) 9 (90.0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 38 (28.6)
 Chemotherapy 28 (87.5) 7 (70.0) 14 (77.8) 14 (87.5) 11 (78.6) 0 (0) 74 (55.6)
 Radiation therapy 23 (71.9) 7 (70.0) 9 (50.0) 9 (56.3) 0 (0) 0 (0) 48 (36.1)
 Hormone therapy 20 (62.5) 10 (100) 6 (33.3) 4 (25.0) 13 (92.9) 6 (14.0) 59 (44.4)
 Supportive therapy 2 (6.3) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 2 (1.5)
 Biologic response modifiers 0 (0) 0 (0) 4 (22.2) 1 (6.3) 0 (0) 0 (0) 5 (3.8)
 Endocrine agents 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 7 (50.0) 0 (0) 7 (5.3)

aOnly mean age provided in article

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