Average Values
Average BSA for children of various ages, for men, and for women, are taken to be:
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Neonate (newborn) 0.25 m² Child of 2 years 0.5 m² 9 years 1.07 m² 10 years 1.14 m² 12-13 years 1.33 m² Women 1.6 m² Men 1.9 m²
There was an average BSA of 1.73 m2 for 3,000 cancer patients from 1990 to 1998 in a European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) database. During 2005 there was an average BSA of 1.79 m2 for 3,613 adult cancer patients in the UK. Among them the average BSA for men was 1.91 m2 and for women was 1.71 m2.
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