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Table 1 Characteristics of patients with wild-type or mutant HER-2 and positive or negative HER-2 expression by immunohistochemistry

From: Epidemiological study of HER-2 mutations among EGFR wild-type lung adenocarcinoma patients in China

 

HER-2 WT n(%)

HER-2 MUT n(%)

p value

HER-2 IHC(-) n(%)

HER-2 IHC(+) n(%)

p value

Sex

Male

239(55.1)

11(50.0)

0.666

162(53.6)

30(54.5)

1.000

Female

195(44.9)

11(50.0)

 

140(46.4)

25(45.5)

 

Age

≥65

132(30.4)

3(13.6)

0.100

80(26.5)

21(38.2)

0.103

<65

302(69.6)

19(86.4)

 

222(73.5)

34(61.8)

 

Smoking status

Never/light smoking

280(64.5)

15(68.2)

0.822

190(62.9)

40(72.7)

0.172

Smoking

154(35.5)

7(31.8)

 

112(37.1)

15(27.3)

 

Disease stage

I

249(62.3)

13(59.1)

0.619

184(66.9)

31(62.0)

0.887

II

43(10.8)

3(13.6)

 

27(9.8)

5(10.0)

 

III

85(21.3)

6(27.3)

 

52(18.9)

12(24.0)

 

IV

23(5.8)

0(0.0)

 

12(4.4)

2(4.0)

 

Histologic subtype

Lepidic

40(9.6)

0(0.0)

0.436

34(11.5)

3(5.8)

0.166

Acinar

179(43.1)

8(36.4)

 

126(42.7)

20(38.5)

 

Papillary

92(22.2)

8(36.4)

 

57(19.3)

12(23.1)

 

Micropapillary

14(3.4)

0(0.0)

 

12(4.1)

1(1.9)

 

Solid

33(8.0)

2(9.1)

 

20(6.8)

8(15.4)

 

IMA

28(6.7)

3(13.6)

 

24(8.1)

4(7.7)

 

Enteric

2(0.5)

0(0.0)

 

1(0.3)

1(0.2)

 

AIS

14(3.4)

0(0.0)

 

12(4.1)

0(0.0)

 

MIA

13(3.1)

1(4.5)

 

9(3.1)

3(5.8)

 
  1. The total number of wild-type and mutant HER-2 cases was 456; disease stage and histologic subtype data were available for 422 and 437 of these cases, respectively
  2. The total number of cases negative or positive for HER-2 by immunohistochemistry was 357; disease stage and histologic subtype data were available for 325 and 347 cases, respectively
  3. Abbreviations: AIS adenocarcinoma in situ, IMA invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma, MIA minimally invasive adenocarcinoma