Table 1

Patient characteristics
Characteristic
 Categories
 Number
 Percent (%)
Vital Status
 Expired
 85
 32.8

Censored1
 174
 67.2
Prior Treatment
 Progressive disease
 178
 68.7
History
 Newly diagnosed
 81
 31.3
Stage at Diagnosis
 Stage I
 56
 21.6

Stage II
 110
 42.5

Stage III
 46
 17.8

Stage IV
 34
 13.1

Missing
 13
 5.0
Age at Diagnosis
 25–35
 26
 10

36–45
 72
 27.8

46–55
 88
 33.9

56–65
 66
 25.6

66–75
 7
 2.7

1 Patients who reached the end of their follow-up without experiencing death.

N = 259

Gupta et al. BMC Cancer 2008 8:249   doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-249