Nutrition Journal

Table 1 Reasons for ineligibility

From: Appropriate vitamin D loading regimen for patients with advanced lung cancer

Reason	Number	Percent^a
Early stage lung cancer	137	26.1
Clinically unstable	118	22.5
Vitamin D usage	84	16.0
Came for second opinion	55	10.5
Language barrier	37	7.0
On another study	23	4.4
Not lung cancer	29	5.5
Mentally incompetent	14	2.7
High serum calcium	14	2.7
Unreliable	7	1.3
Other	7	1.3

Of 747 patients evaluated, 525 were ineligible to participate
^aPercent of ineligible patients. Some patients had more than one exclusion criterion; only the first reason or main condition is noted

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