Table 1 Baseline characteristics
From: Prevalence and prognostic implications of psychological distress in patients with gastric cancer
N = 229 | % | |
|---|---|---|
Age | ||
Median | 56 | |
Range | 20–86 | |
Gender | ||
Male | 167 | 72.9 |
Female | 62 | 27.1 |
ECOG Performance | ||
0 | 121 | 52.8 |
1 | 96 | 41.9 |
2–3 | 12 | 5.2 |
Smoking | ||
Smoker | 46 | 20.1 |
Non-Smoker | 183 | 79.9 |
Marital status | ||
Married | 196 | 85.6 |
Single | 17 | 7.4 |
Widowed | 12 | 5.2 |
Divorced | 4 | 1.7 |
Educational level | ||
Elementary school | 24 | 10.5 |
Middle school | 27 | 11.8 |
High school | 86 | 37.6 |
Undergraduate | 74 | 32.3 |
Graduate school | 18 | 7.9 |
Employment status | ||
Full-time job | 82 | 35.8 |
Part-time job | 26 | 11.4 |
Unemployed | 82 | 35.8 |
Housewife/Student | 39 | 17 |
Histology | ||
Tubular adenocarcinoma | 161 | 70.3 |
Signet ring cell carcinoma | 58 | 25.3 |
Mucinous carcinoma | 5 | 2.2 |
Others | 5 | 2.2 |
Adjuvant chemotherapy | ||
Platinum-based doublet (SP or FP) | 56/83 | 67.5 |
TS-1 monotherapy | 22/83 | 26.5 |
Others | 5/83 | 6 |
Initial metastasis site | ||
Peritoneum | 52/97 | 53.6 |
Distant LN | 41/97 | 42.3 |
Liver | 28/97 | 28.9 |
Bone | 12/97 | 12.4 |
Lung | 9/97 | 9.3 |
Brain | 2/97 | 2.1 |
Others | 19/97 | 19.6 |
Palliative chemotherapy | ||
No | 15/97 | 15.5 |
Yes | 82/97 | 84.5 |
Palliative chemotherapy regimen | ||
Platinum-based doublet (SP or FP) | 60/82 | 73.2 |
Taxane-based regimen | 12/82 | 14.6 |
Triplet (DCF) | 2/82 | 2.4 |
Others | 8/82 | 9.7 |
AJCC stage at enrollment | ||
1 | 34 | 14.8 |
2 | 33 | 14.4 |
3 | 65 | 28.4 |
4 | 97 | 42.4 |