Table 1 Demographic characteristics of enrolled subjects (N = 124)
From: Neuropathic and nociceptive pain in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy
Variable | Category | Frequency (n) | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
Gender | Male | 95 | 77% |
| Â | Female | 29 | 23% |
Education | <= 8th grade | 3 | 2% |
| Â | 12th grade | 54 | 44% |
| Â | Associated degree | 32 | 26% |
| Â | >= Bachelor's degree | 30 | 24% |
| Â | Missing | 5 | 4% |
Ethnicity | Caucasian | 109 | 88% |
| Â | African American | 3 | 2% |
| Â | Hispanic | 4 | 3% |
| Â | Asian | 3 | 2% |
| Â | Other | 5 | 4% |
Cancer Stage (Current) | Stage I | 22 | 18% |
| Â | Stage II | 17 | 14% |
| Â | Stage III | 15 | 12% |
| Â | Stage IV | 62 | 50% |
| Â | Missing | 8 | 6.5% |
Surgery | No | 38 | 31% |
| Â | Yes | 85 | 69% |
| Â | Missing | 1 | 1% |
Chemotherapy | No | 91 | 73% |
| Â | Yes | 31 | 25% |
| Â | Missing | 2 | 2% |
Radiation Therapy | Yes | 124 | 100% |
Origin of Pain | Tumor-related | 26 | 21% |
| Â | Treatment-related | 66 | 53% |
| Â | Both | 24 | 19% |
| Â | Unknown | 8 | 6% |