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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Vascular endothelial growth factor in children with neuroblastoma: a retrospective analysis

Characteristics

No. patients

Total number

56

Gender

 

   Male

35

   Female

21

Age

 

   Median 35.5 months

 

   Range 2 months - 12 years

 

   >18 months old

36

   ≤ 18 months old

20

Histologic subtype

 

   Stroma-rich

 

Well differentiated

3

Intermixed

10

Focal nodular

3

   Stroma-poor

 

Undifferentiated

30

Differentiating

10

Histology

 

   Favourable

23

   Unfavourable

33

Stage

 

   1

3

   2

15

   3

20

   4

17

   4s *

1

Treatment

 

   S

3

   S/CTH

32

   S/CTH/MIBGT

2

   S/CTH/RT

2

   S/CTH/BMT

14

   S/CTH/MIBGT/BMT

2

   S/CTH/BMT/RT

1

Survival

 

   Alive

35

   Dead

21

  1. Abbreviations: 4s * in infants with small primary tumours and metastatic disease involving the skin, liver, limited infiltration of the bone marrow, and can spontaneously regress; S, surgery; CTH, chemotherapy; MIBGT, metaiodobenzylguanidine therapy; BMT, bone marrow transplant; RT, radiotherapy