Figure 1.
Patient identification and inclusion in study.
Only cases in which a full dataset could be obtained were included in the study. This was possible for over 80% of patients in all 3 centres, with only a relatively small number excluded, mainly due to misfiling or loss of chemotherapy scripts.
Table 1.
Figure 2.
Histograms depicting the distribution of body surface area in men and women undergoing chemotherapy.
As illustrated, the distribution approximates normal in both sexes.
Figure 3.
Correlation between age and BSA.
The BSA was negatively correlated with age in both genders as shown in the scatterplots above. The Pearson correlation coefficient was −0.124 and −0.157 respectively and both results were statistically significant (p<0.0005).
Table 2.
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