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Table 2 Patient, tumor, and treatment characteristics

From: Smoking is predictive of poorer distant metastasis-free and progression free-survival in soft tissue sarcoma patients treated with pre-operative radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy

 

Number of patients (%)

166

Median age

Smoking: 60

Non-smoking: 55

Smoking

No: 109 (65.6)

Yes: 57 (34.4)

Current smoker

No: 143 (86.1)

Yes: 23 (13.9)

Cardiovascular disease

No: 143 (86.1)

Yes: 23 (13.9)

Lung disease

No: 147 (88.6)

COPD: 18 (10.8)

Primary malignancy: 1 (0.6)

Diabetes mellitus

No: 145 (87.3)

Yes: 21 (12.7)

Grade

Low: 16 (9.6)

Intermediate: 50 (30.1)

High: 100 (60.2)

Histology

Undifferentiated/MFH: 45 (27.1)

Liposarcoma: 33 (19.9)

Synovial cell: 33 (19.9)

Myxofibrosarcoma: 23 (13.9)

Leiomyosarcoma: 15 (9.0)

MPNST: 6 (3.6)

Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma: 4 (2.4)

Fibrosarcoma: 3 (1.8)

Solitary fibrous: 3 (1.8)

Clear cell: 1 (0.6)

Stage

I: 24 (14.4)

II: 25 (15.1)

III: 117 (70.5)

Karnofsky performance status

80–100: 141 (84.9)

≤ 70: 25 (15.1)

Tumor location

Upper extremity: 39 (23.5)

Lower extremity: 127 (76.5)

Distant lung metastasis

42 (25.3)

Tumor size

< 10 cm: 94 (56.6)

≥ 10 cm: 72 (43.4)

Chemotherapy

No: 107 (64.5)

Yes: 59 (35.5)