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Table 1 Patient characteristics of the ST-ICI cohort

From: Questionnaire-based detection of immune-related adverse events in cancer patients treated with PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors

Patient characteristics All patients
n = 104 (%)
Sex
 Male 76 (73)
 Female 28 (27)
Median age ± SD (years) 66 ± 10.2
Treatment arm
 IT-RT 50 (48)
 IT-only 54 (52)
Location of radiotherapya (n = 50)
 Lung 17 (34)
 CNS 10 (20)
 Bone 5 (10)
 Other 18 (36)
PD-L1 tumor cells
 < 1% 36 (35)
 1–49% 33 (32)
 ≥ 50% 32 (31)
 Unknown 3 (3)
Brain metastases 24 (23)
Tumor entity
 NSCLC 46 (44)
 HNSCC 44 (42)
 Bladder cancer 5 (5)
 Oesophageal cancer 4 (4)
 Other 5 (5)
Number of previous treatments
 0–1 61 (59)
  ≥ 2 43 (41)
Disease stage  
Adjuvant setting 12 (12)
Palliative setting 92 (88)
  local tumor recurrence 15 (14)
  distant metastases 77 (74)
Drug
 Nivolumab 66 (64)
 Pembrolizumab 24 (23)
 Durvalumab 9 (9)
 Other 5 (5)
Concomitant chemotherapy 6 (6)
Comorbidityb (n = 199)
 Arterial hypertonia 34 (33)
 Cardiovascular comorbidity 30 (29)
 Diabetes 20 (19)
 COPD 18 (17)
 Autoimmune disease 2 (2)
 Other 87 (84)
 None 8 (8)
  1. aOnly radiotherapy within 30 days before or after first administration of ICI
  2. bMultiple co-morbidities per patient possible
  3. SD Standard deviation, IT Immunotherapy, RT Radiotherapy, CNS Central nervous system, PD-L1 Programmed death ligand, HNSCC Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, NSCLC Non small cell lung carcinoma