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Table 1 Characteristics of the study population

From: Post-diagnosis hemoglobin change associates with overall survival of multiple malignancies – results from a 14-year hospital-based cohort of lung, breast, colorectal, and liver cancers

 

All cancers (n=6675)

Lung (n=2367)

Breast (n=1739)

CRC (n=1860)

Liver (n=709)

Variables

No. of patients (%)

No. of patients (%)

No. of patients (%)

No. of patients (%)

No. of patients (%)

Age (Mean ± SD)

62.4 ± 11.3

65.5 ± 11.3

56.3 ± 13.3

64.7 ± 13.8

61.0 ± 11.3

Gender

Female

4081(61.14)

1232(52.05)

1739(100)

949(51.02)

161(22.71)

Male

2594(38.86)

1135(47.95)

 

911(48.98)

548(77.29)

Ethnicity

Caucasian

4758(71.28)

1780(75.2)

1123(64.58)

1403(75.43)

452(63.75)

Black

1445(21.65)

468(19.77)

491(28.23)

359(19.3)

127(17.91)

Others

472(7.07)

119(5.03)

125(7.19)

98(5.28)

130(18.33)

Tumor stages

Stage 0

325(4.87)

1(0.04)

264(15.18)

60(3.23)

 

Stage 1

1764(26.43)

533(22.52)

605(34.79)

419(22.53)

207(29.2)

Stage 2

1272(19.06)

158(6.68)

527(30.3)

454(24.41)

133(18.76)

Stage 3

1207(18.08)

465(19.65)

164(9.43)

418(22.47)

160(22.57)

Stage 4

1659(24.85)

1042(44.02)

119(6.84)

385(20.7)

113(15.94)

Unknown

448(6.71)

168(7.09)

60(3.45)

124(6.67)

96(13.54)

Tumor grades

Well

515(7.71)

124(5.24)

155(8.91)

172(9.25)

64(9.03)

Moderately

2260(33.86)

427(18.04)

575(33.06)

1138(61.18)

120(16.93)

Poorly

1514(22.68)

630(26.62)

605(34.79)

250(13.44)

29(4.09)

Not determined

2386(35.75)

1186(50.1)

404(23.23)

300(16.13)

496(69.96)

Chemotherapy

No

2258(33.83)

258(10.9)

989(56.87)

918(49.35)

93(13.12)

Yes

2865(42.92)

948(40.05)

705(40.54)

840(45.16)

372(52.47)

Unknown

1552(23.25)

1161(49.05)

45(2.59)

102(5.48)

244(34.41)

Radiation

No

2933(43.94)

208(8.79)

1097(63.08)

1492(80.22)

136(19.18)

Yes

1929(28.9)

970(40.98)

582(33.47)

335(18.01)

42(5.92)

Unknown

1813(27.16)

1189(50.23)

60(3.45)

33(1.77)

531(74.89)

Surgery

No

1134(16.99)

615(25.98)

95(5.46)

210(11.29)

214(30.18)

Yes

4832(72.39)

1200(50.7)

1644(94.54)

1650(88.71)

338(47.67)

Unknown

709(10.62)

552(23.32)

  

157(22.14)

Vital status

Alive

3133(46.94)

572(24.17)

1374(79.01)

986(53.01)

201(28.35)

Dead

3542(53.06)

1795(75.83)

365(20.99)

874(46.99)

508(71.65)