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Table 1 Characteristics of the patients

From: Relationship between traditional Chinese medicine constitutional types with chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in patients with breast cancer: an observational study

Index

N (%)

Age (year)

<35

12 (2.0)

35–60

544 (88.8)

>61

56 (9.2)

Education level

Junior middle school or above

250 (40.9)

Below junior middle school

362 (59.1)

Family history of breast cancer

Yes

206 (33.7)

History of vomitinga

Yes

114 (18.6)

TNM staging

I

135 (22.1)

II

331 (54.0)

III

104 (17.0)

IV

42 (6.9)

Pathological type

Infiltrating ductal carcinoma

294 (48.0)

Infiltrating lobular carcinoma

183 (29.9)

Non-infiltrating intraductal papillary carcinoma

135 (22.1)

KPS score

60–70

242 (39.5)

70–100

370 (60.5)

Severity of CINV

Grade 0

48 (7.8)

Grade I-II

291 (47.6)

Grade III-IV

273 (44.6)

  1. TNM tumor-node-metastasis staging, KPS Karnofsky performance status, CINV chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting
  2. aHistory of nausea and vomiting was defined as any persistent event of nausea and vomiting that affected their lives and/or required medical interventions