Table 1 Population study
From: A pilot study on the impact of known drug-drug interactions in cancer patients
| Number of patients: 64 |
| Setting: day care ambulatory |
| Performance status (ecog): ≤ 2 |
| Median age: 68 years |
| Sex: |
| - Men 31 % |
| - Women 69 % |
| Type of tumors: |
| - Breast cancer 43 % |
| - Colorectal tumors 27 % |
| - Head and neck tumors 18 % |
| - Others 12 % |
| Concomitant disease: (average number 2) |
| - Cardiovascular disease 41 % |
| - Diabetes 26 % |
| - Depression 13 % |
| Number of medications: (average number 7) |
| - 2 metabolized by p-450 cyp |