Table 2.

Patient characteristics.

	short G-CSF	pegfilgrastim	p-value
Cycle	84	53※1
No. of patients※2	29	19
Age	n (%)	n (%)
median	35	42	0.74
range	14–66	18–55
primary tumor
testis	25 (86)	17 (89)	0.72
anterior mediastinum	3 (10)	2 (11)
retroperitoneum	1 (4)	0
pathology
seminoma	13 (44)	8 (42)	0.69
mixed	15 (51)	11 (58)
unknown	1 (5)	0
clinical stage			0.15
I	0	3 (15)
II	13 (44)	8 (42)
III	15 (51)	7 (36)
unknown	1 (5)	1 (5)
IGCCC			0.30
Good	15 (51)	14 (73)
Intermediate	8 (27)	4 (21)
Poor	5 (22)	1 (6)
distant metastasis			0.47
LN	23 (79)	15 (79)
Lung	7 (24)	4 (21)
Liver	1 (3)	2 (10)
Bone	0	2 (10)
Retroperitoneum	1 (3)	0
None	3 (10)	3 (15)

IGCCC, International Germ Cell Consensus Classification.

※1. 9 of 53 cycles were combined with G-CSF.

※2. The total number of patients was 44, of which 4 had overlapping patient numbers as some patients belonged to both groups.