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Table 1 Patient demographics and tumour characteristics

From: Management of patients with early stage lung cancer – why do some patients not receive treatment with curative intent?

Subgroup

Māori

Non-Māori

P-value (Chi-square test)

Total

Sex

 Female

104 (61.5%)

220 (53.1%)

0.064

324 (55.6%)

 Male

65 (38.5%)

194 (46.9%)

 

259 (44.4%)

Age (years)

  < 60

35 (20.7%)

53 (12.8%)

< 0.001

88 (15.1%)

 60–69

65 (38.5%)

120 (29.0%)

 

185 (31.7%)

 70–79

57 (33.7%)

170 (41.1%)

 

227 (38.9%)

 80+

12 (7.1%)

71 (17.1%)

 

83 (14.2%)

Smoking status

 Current smoker

63 (40.4%)

104 (27.0%)

< 0.001

167 (30.9%)

 Ex-smoker

91 (58.3%)

234 (60.8%)

 

325 (60.1%)

 Never smoked

2 (1.3%)

47 (12.2%)

 

49 (9.1%)

 Unknown

13

29

 

42

Charlson Comorbidity

 0

37 (21.9%)

119 (28.7%)

< 0.001

156 (26.8%)

 1

44 (26.0%)

147 (35.5%)

 

191 (32.8%)

 2

51 (30.2%)

99 (23.9%)

 

150 (25.7%)

 3

29 (17.2%)

33 (8.0%)

 

62 (10.6%)

 4+

8 (4.7%)

16 (3.9%)

 

24 (4.1%)

COPD

 No

57 (39.9%)

207 (57.2%)

< 0.001

264 (52.3%)

 Yes

86 (60.1%)

155 (42.8%)

 

241 (47.7%)

 Unknown

26

52

 

78

Cell type

 NSCLC

124 (91.2%)

328 (96.2%)

< 0.001

452 (94.8%)

 Others

2 (1.5%)

9 (2.6%)

 

11 (2.3%)

 Small cell

10 (7.4%)

4 (1.2%)

 

14 (2.9%)

 Unknown

33

73

 

106

FEV1

  < 50%

46 (30.3%)

63 (17.4%)

< 0.001

109 (21.2%)

 50%~ 80%

70 (46.1%)

139 (38.4%)

 

209 (40.7%)

 80%+

36 (23.7%)

160 (44.2%)

 

196 (38.1%)

 Unknown

17

52

 

69

ECOG

 0

51 (32.3%)

157 (40.6%)

0.194

208 (38.2%)

 1

73 (46.2%)

158 (40.8%)

 

231 (42.4%)

 2+

34 (21.5%)

72 (18.6%)

 

106 (19.4%)

 Unknown

11

27

 

38

Total

169

414

 

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