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Table 1 The clinical characteristics of enrolled patients

From: Apparent diffusion coefficient as an effective index for the therapeutic efficiency of brain chemoradiotherapy for brain metastases from lung cancer

Clinical characteristics

Case number

Lesion number

43

Mean age

63.6 (45–85)

Gender

Female 18: Male 12

Pathological type

 Squamous carcinoma

12

 Adenocarcinoma

11

 Small cell lung cancer

3

 Undifferentiated carcinoma

4

Location of brain metastasis

 Frontal lobe

9

 Parietal lobe

11

 Occipital lobe

12

 Basal ganglia

4

 Opisthencephalon

4

 Temporal lobe

2

 Brainstem

1