Editing Body surface area (section)

==Average values==
Average BSA for children of various ages,  for men,  and for women, can be estimated using statistical survey data and a BSA formula:<ref>{{cite web|last1=Georgiev|first1=Georgi|title=Body Surface Area Calculator|url=https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/bsa-calculator.php|website=Gigacalculator.com|access-date=17 March 2018}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+Mean male BSA by age
!Age or age group
! colspan="2" |metric
! colspan="2" |imperial
|-
|Neonate (newborn)
|0.243
!m<sup>2</sup>
|2.612
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|2 years
|0.563
!m<sup>2</sup>
|6.060
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|5 years
|0.787
!m<sup>2</sup>
|8.471
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|10 years
|1.236
!m<sup>2</sup>
|13.304
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|13 years
|1.603
!m<sup>2</sup>
|17.255
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|18 years
|1.980
!m<sup>2</sup>
|21.313
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|20–79 years
|2.060
!m<sup>2</sup>
|22.173
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|80+ years
|1.920
!m<sup>2</sup>
|20.667
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Mean female BSA by age
!Age or age group
! colspan="2" |metric
! colspan="2" |imperial
|-
|Neonate (newborn)
|0.234
!m<sup>2</sup>
|2.519
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|2 years
|0.540
!m<sup>2</sup>
|5.813
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|5 years
|0.771
!m<sup>2</sup>
|8.299
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|10 years
|1.245
!m<sup>2</sup>
|13.401
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|13 years
|1.550
!m<sup>2</sup>
|16.684
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|18 years
|1.726
!m<sup>2</sup>
|18.579
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|20–79 years
|1.830
!m<sup>2</sup>
|19.697
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|-
|80+ years
|1.638
!m<sup>2</sup>
|17.631
!ft<sup>2</sup>
|}
The estimations in the above tables are based weight and height data from the U.S. NCHS National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2011-2014).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/index.htm|title=National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey|website=Cdc.gov|access-date=2018-03-17}}</ref>

There was an average BSA of {{nowrap|1.73 m<sup>2</sup>}} for 3,000 cancer patients from 1990 to 1998 in a [[European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer]] (EORTC) database.<ref name='Sparreboom2003'>{{cite journal | title = Paclitaxel Pharmacokinetics, Threshold Models, and Dosing Strategies | journal = Journal of Clinical Oncology | date = 15 Jul 2003 |vauthors=Sparreboom A, Verweij J | volume = 21 | issue = 14 | pages = 2803–4 | doi = 10.1200/JCO.2003.99.038 | pmid=12860961| doi-access = free }}</ref>

During 2005 there was an average BSA of  {{nowrap|1.79 m<sup>2</sup>}} for 3,613 adult cancer patients in the UK. Among them  the average BSA for men was {{nowrap|1.91 m<sup>2</sup>}} and for women was {{nowrap|1.71 m<sup>2</sup>}}.<ref name='Sacco2010'>{{cite journal | title = The Average Body Surface Area of Adult Cancer Patients in the UK: A Multicentre Retrospective Study | journal = [[PLoS One]] | date = 28 Jan 2010 |vauthors=Sacco JJ, Botten J, Macbeth F, Bagust A, Clark P | volume = 5 | issue = 1 | page = e8933 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0008933 | url = http://ukpmc.ac.uk/articles/PMC2812484/reload=0;jsessionid=VMxGfFGKF2er3zi0XF6N.4 | access-date = 2012-09-09 | pmid=20126669 | pmc=2812484| bibcode = 2010PLoSO...5.8933S | doi-access = free }}</ref>