Patient Characteristics
| Patient characteristics | Data |
| Sex | |
| Female | 119 (42.5) |
| Male | 161 (57.5) |
| Age (y) | |
| Median | 68 |
| Range | 58–80 |
| Ann Arbor stage | |
| I | 1 (0.4) |
| II | 25 (8.9) |
| III | 57 (20.4) |
| IV | 197 (70.4) |
| Performance status* | |
| 0 | 113 (40.4) |
| 1 | 119 (42.5) |
| 2 | 39 (13.9) |
| 3 | 2 (0.7) |
| 4 | 2 (0.7) |
| Missing | 5 (1.8) |
| International Prognostic Index | |
| 1 | 6 (2.1) |
| 2 | 73 (26.1) |
| 3 | 97 (34.6) |
| 4 | 81 (28.9) |
| 5 | 19 (6.8) |
| Missing | 4 (1.4) |
| Elevated lactate dehydrogenase† | |
| No | 111 (39.6) |
| Yes | 165 (58.9) |
| Missing | 4 (1.4) |