No. | Age/sex | Race | X-ray stage | Pack-year smoking | Prior ca | Chemo | PCR result on lymph nodes | Initial symptoms (year) | Follow-up (months) | Current status (long term) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 41/F | AA | I | 7 | Uterine | No | Mycobacterium chelonae | Yes (2009) | 36 | Sympt, alive |
2 | 63/F | C | II | 20 | Breast | Yes | M chelonae | Yes (2008) | 12 | Sympt, deceased from COPD 2009 |
3 | 64/F | C | II | None | None | No | Mycobacterium mucogenicum | Yes (2008) | 41 | Sympt, alive |
4 | 43/M | C | I | None | Melanoma | No | Negative | No (2009) | 31 | Asympt, alive |
5 | 61/F | C | I | None | Synovial cell sarcoma | Yes | Negative | No (2009) | 23 | Asympt; new endometrial. ca, alive |
6 | 39/M | C | II | 5 | None | No | Proprionibacterium acnes | Yes (2008) | 35 | Sympt, alive |
7 | 58/M | C | I | 3 | Tonsil cancer | Yes | Corynebacterium propinquum | Yes (2006) | 65 | Sympt; tonsil ca. relapse, alive |
8 | 54/M | C | II | None | None | No | P acnes | Yes (2006) | 60 | Sympt, alive |
9 | 52/F | AA | I | 6 | None | No | Negative | Yes (2007) | 58 | Sympt, alive |
10 | 53/F | C | I | 5 | Melanoma | Yes | Negative | No (2007) | 53 | Asympt, alive |
11 | 34/M | AA | II | None | None | No | P acnes | Yes (2007) | 53 | Sympt, alive |
12 | 40/M | C | I | Cigars | None | No | Negative | Yes (2007) | 36 | Sympt, alive |
13 | 49/M | AA | II | None | None | No | Duganella zoogloeoides | Yes (2010) | Lost | Unknown, alive |
14 | 57/F | AA | II | 5 | Breast | Yes | P acnes | Yes (2000) | 136 | Sympt; breast ca relapse; polymyalgia rheumatica; Hashimoto's thyroiditis, alive |
15 | 67/M | C | I | None | None | No | Negative | No (2001) | Lost | Unknown, alive |
16 | 30/M | H | I | None | None | No | Negative | No (2001) | Lost | Unknown, alive |
17 | 75/F | C | I | None | Ovarian | Yes | Negative | No (2002) | 36 | Asympt, deceased from ca, 2005 |
18 | 67/F | C | I | 50 | Liposarcoma | No | Negative | No (2003) | 106 | Sympt, alive |
19 | 60/F | C | I | None | Nerve sheath tumour | No | Negative | No (2003) | 60 | Asympt, deceased unknown cause 2008 |
20 | 41/F | C | I | None | None | No | Negative | No (2005) | 78 | Asympt, alive |
21 | 50/F | C | I | None | None | No | Negative | Yes (2005) | 73 | Asympt, alive |
22 | 48/F | C | I | None | Breast | Yes | P acnes | Yes (2003) | 24 | Sympt; deceased from ca 2005 |
23 | 41/F | C | II | None | Adrenal ca; melanoma | Yes | Negative | Yes (2006) | 4 | Deceased from ca 2007 |
24 | 35/M | H | I | 2.5 | None | No | Negative | Yes (2006) | 24 | Asympt, alive |
25 | 32/M | C | I | 1.0 | None | No | Negative | No (2006) | Lost | Unknown, alive |
26 | 37/M | C | II | 15 | Hodgkin's disease | Yes | P acnes | Yes (2007) | 66 | Sympt, alive |
27 | 51/F | AA | II | None | None | No | Negative | No (2007) | 64 | Sympt; (mildly), alive |
28 | 56/F | C | II | None | Colon ca | Yes | Negative | No (2008) | Lost | Unknown, alive |
29 | 33/M | C | I | 5 | Melanoma | No | Negative | No (2009) | 38 | Asympt, alive |
30 | 52/F | H | II | 1 | Uterine | No | Negative | Yes (2002) | 48 | Asympt, alive |
All patients positive on PCR for microorganism DNA in lymph nodes are shown in italic type.
AA, African-American; asympt., asymptomatic; C, Caucasian; Ca, cancer; Chemo, chemotherapy; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; F, female; H, Hispanic; M, male; Sympt, symptomatic.