Patients characteristics
tumor, primary lung cancer, HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma, pain
TUMOR, METASTASES, ADENOCARCINOMA
Table Patients characteristics at baseline (No 64).Abbreviations: HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; LCNEC, large‐cell neuroendocrinic tumor; NET, neuroendocrinic tumor; NSAID, nonsteroid anti‐inflammatory drugs; RT, radiotherapy; VAS, visual analog scale.Out of the 64 patients included in the study, 38 were men (59%) and 26 were women (41%), with an average age of 66 years (range 43–87 years). Even a third of the patients (34%) were ECOG performance status 3 (PS3). Based on the primary location of the tumor and histological type, the group was very heterogeneous with almost 35% of patients having confirmed primary lung cancer. The largest number of cases (33%) was adenocarcinoma. More than half of the patients in our group (58%) had metastases in the spinal column, and 25% of the patients had metastases in the pelvis. Very strong pain (VAS 8–10) had the largest number of patients, 23 of them (36%), of which 6 (10%) had a severity of 10 on the VAS. Almost 40% of patients used strong opioids to control the pain.