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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2010 Apr 14;375(9724):1437–1446. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60172-9

Table 1. Patient characteristics.

Characteristic No. (%) or
Median (range)
Number of patients 140
 Age, years 68 (44–93)
 PSA, ng/mL 50 (2–2159)
Treatment of the primary tumour
 Surgery 42 (30%)
 Radiation 37 (26%)
 No primary therapy 61 (44%)
Prior hormone therapy 140 (100%)
 1 line 32 (23%)
 2 lines 42 (30%)
 3 lines 37 (25%)
 ≥ 4 lines 29 (21%)
 Ketoconazole 63 (45%)
Prior chemotherapy
 None 65
 Any 75
   1 line 50
   2 or more lines 25
Chemotherapy-Naive CTCs (n=60)
 <5 44
 ≥5 16
Post-chemotherapy CTCs (n=68)
 <5 33
 ≥5 35

Sites of disease Total Evaluable by PCWG2
Bone disease 109 109a
 Bone only 41 41a
 Bone and soft tissue: 68 68a
Soft tissue disease 92 59b
 Lymph node only 21 17b
 Lymph node and bone 54 31b
 Visceral and bone 12 8b
 Visceral only 1 1b
 Other (pelvis/bladder) and bone 2 qb
 Other (pelvis/bladder) alone 2 0b
No evidence of metastases 7 N/A
a

Number with bone disease evaluable by PCWG2

b

Number with soft tissue disease evaluable by PCWG2