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Table 3 The proportion of patients with involvement of the low-risk ROIs given different cutoffs of BMs

From: Distribution of brain metastases: low-risk metastasis areas may be avoided when treating with whole-brain radiotherapy

Cutoffs of BMs

Number of Patients with BMs in low-risk ROIs given specific cutoff of BMs (N = 25)

Number of Patients with specific cutoff of BMs (N = 192)

Proportion

1

0

74

0 (0/74)

2

4

32

12.5% (4/32)

3

1

15

6.7% (1/15)

4

2

16

12.5% (2/16)

≥5

18

55

32.7% (18/55)

  1. BMs brain metastases, ROIs regions of interest