Table 1 Patients’ characteristics

Number of participant

73

   Age (median)

28-79 (62)

   Male: Female

36: 37

   Chemotherapy naïve patients

3

   Primary leasion

Esophageal cancer

2

Gastric cancer

9

Colorectal cancer

16

Bile duct carcinoma

1

Pancreatic cancer

7

Breast cancer

13

Lung cancer

9

Malignant lymphoma

3

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

1

Malignant myeloma

2

Prostate cancer

5

Renal cell carcinoma

1

Cancer of unknown primary

4