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Table 1 Demographic and disease characteristics

From: Intratumorally injected pro-inflammatory allogeneic dendritic cells as immune enhancers: a first-in-human study in unfavourable risk patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma

Characteristics/Variable

No. of patients (%)

Age

 Median

61.5

 Range

49–81

Sex

 Female

2 (16.7)

 Male

10 (83.3)

ECOG (screening)

 Grade 0

10 (83.3)

 Grade 1

2 (16.7)

Time from diagnosis to treatment

1.0 month (Mdn)

Metastatic disease

11 (91.7)

Histologic subtypes

 Clear cell

11 (91.6)

 Non-clear cell (papillary)

1 (8.4)

 Sarcomatoid features

6 (50)

Fuhrman nuclear grade

 Grade 1

2 (16.7)

 Grade 3

7 (58.3)

 Grade 4

3 (25.0)

MSKCC [38] and/or IMDC [39] variables

  < 1 year from diagnosis to targeted treatment

11 (100)

 Karnofsky performance status <80%

1 (9.1)

 Haemoglobin < LLN

8 (72.7)

 Serum corrected calcium conc. > ULN

5 (45.5)

 Lactate dehydrogenase >1.5 x ULN

1 (9.1)

 Neutrophil count > ULN

0 (0)

 Paltelet count > ULN

3 (27.2)

MSKCC prognostic group

 Favourable

0 (0)

 Intermediate

5 (45.5)

 Poor

6 (54.5)

IMDC prognostic group

 Favourable

0 (0)

 Intermediate

6 (54.5)

 Poor

5 (45.5)

  1. Abbreviations: LLN lower limit of normal, ULN upper limit of normal, MSKCC Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, IMDC International Metastatic RCC Database, Mdn median