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Table 3 Baseline sociodemographic and disease-related characteristics of patients to date

From: Psychosocial impact of prognostic genetic testing in the care of uveal melanoma patients: protocol of a controlled prospective clinical observational study

  

Oberservational group (OG)

Intervention group (IG)

n

35

27

Sociodemographic characteristics

Age in years

mean ± sd: 60.03 ± 12.41

mean ± sd: 62.96 ± 12.30

range: 37–78

range: 40–82

Sex

female: 16

female: 11

male: 19

male: 16

Nationality

German: 34

German: 26

Polish: 1

Dutch: 1

Disease-related characteristics

Treatment

brachytherapy: 32

brachytherapy: 14

endoresection: 0

endoresection: 4

endoresection and Gamma-Knife: 1

endoresection and Gamma-Knife: 1

cyber-Knife: 0

cyber-Knife: 1

enucleation: 2

enucleation: 7

Method of tumor sampling

-

pars plana vitrectomy: 15

endoresection: 5

enucleation: 7

Utilization of psycho-oncological support

support offered by study program: 2

support offered by study program: 2

other support: 2

other support: 1