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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the patients

From: Clinical characteristics of Japanese patients with epithelioid hemangioendothelioma: a multicenter retrospective study

 

No. (%) of patients (n = 42)

Age, median (range)

54 (18–78)

Sex

 Male

22

(52)

 Female

20

(48)

Smoking historya

 Present

17

(40)

 Absent

23

(55)

 Unknown

2

(5)

Symptoms at diagnosis

 Present

22

(52)

  1. aSeventeen patients with smoking history included 14 males (64%) and 3 females (15%). In comparison with a large-scale population study in Japan concerning total cancer incidence according to smoking status, 84% of males and 9% of females at the diagnosis of cancer had smoking history [24]
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BMC Cancer

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