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Table 2 Demographics, clinical characteristics, and treatments of GC/GEJC/EAC patients, HER2 negative/ unknown, on first-line treatment

From: Global retrospective analysis of clinician- and patient-reported clinical characteristics and humanistic burden of patients with gastroesophageal cancers on first-line treatment

Characteristic

Total

France

Germany

UK

US

Japan

China

n = 682

n = 168

n = 146

n = 145

n = 99

n = 36

n = 88

Age, years

 Mean (SD)

64.6 (10.0)

65.0 (9.5)

64.1 (8.9)

66.3 (8.9)

67.7 (8.6)

69.8 (8.3)

56.1 (11.4)

 Median (IQR)

66 (59–71)

67 (60–71)

65 (58–69)

67 (63–72)

68 (62–73)

70 (63–77)

57 (48–65)

Male (%)

474 (69.5)

127 (75.6)

108 (74.0)

95 (65.5)

70 (70.7)

23 (63.9)

51 (58.0)

Confirmed diagnosis, n (%)

682

168

146

145

99

36

88

 GC

415 (60.9)

107 (63.7)

90 (61.6)

75 (51.7)

41 (41.4)

26 (72.2)

76 (86.4)

 GEJC

192 (28.2)

44 (26.2)

43 (29.5)

46 (31.7)

43 (43.4)

4 (11.1)

12 (13.6)

 EAC

75 (11.0)

17 (10.1)

13 (8.9)

24 (16.6)

15 (15.2)

6 (16.7)

0 (0.0)

Lauren classification, n (%)

599

148

144

126

68

31

82

 Diffuse

231 (38.6)

57 (38.5)

52 (36.1)

52 (41.3)

26 (38.2)

16 (51.6)

28 (34.2)

 Intestinal

262 (43.7)

73 (49.3)

64 (44.4)

47 (37.3)

30 (44.1)

13 (41.9)

35 (42.7)

 Mixed

106 (17.7)

18 (12.2)

28 (19.4)

27 (21.4)

12 (17.7)

2 (6.5)

19 (23.2)

Comorbidities (> 5%), n (%)

682

168

146

145

99

36

88

 Diabetes

107 (15.7)

22 (13.1)

24 (16.4)

22 (15.3)

22 (22.2)

3 (8.3)

14 (15.9)

 Chronic pulmonary disease

96 (14.1)

24 (14.3)

30 (20.6)

22 (15.3)

15 (15.2)

0 (0.0)

5 (5.7)

 Anxiety

82 (12.0)

35 (20.8)

8 (5.5)

8 (5.5)

19 (19.2)

2 (5.6)

10 (11.5)

 Depression

80 (11.7)

15 (8.9)

27 (18.5)

12 (8.3)

23 (23.2)

0 (0.0)

3 (3.4)

 Peptic ulcer disease

68 (10.0)

20 (11.9)

3 (2.1)

18 (12.4)

14 (14.1)

2 (5.6)

11 (12.5)

 Mild liver disease

56 (8.2)

12 (7.1)

17 (11.6)

3 (2.1)

8 (8.1)

7 (19.4)

9 (10.2)

 Peripheral vascular disease

39 (5.7)

15 (8.9)

9 (6.2)

2 (1.4)

10 (10.1)

0 (0.0)

3 (3.4)

 Myocardial infarction

37 (5.4)

8 (4.8)

13 (8.9)

9 (6.2)

5 (5.1)

0 (0.0)

2 (2.3)

 Renal disease

34 (5.0)

7 (4.2)

7 (4.8)

6 (4.1)

8 (8.1)

2 (5.6)

4 (4.6)

Charlson Comorbidity Index

682

168

146

145

99

36

88

 Mean (SD)

2.7 (1.3)

2.6 (1.1)

3.0 (1.6)

2.7 (1.3)

2.7 (1.3)

2.8 (1.2)

2.5 (1.1)

 Median (IQR)

2 (2–3)

2 (2–3)

2 (2–3)

2 (2–3)

2 (2–3)

2 (2–4)

2 (2–3)

Current active treatment regimen, n (%)

682

168

146

145

99

36

88

 Anti-angiogenic based

22 (3.2)

0 (0.0)

11 (7.5)

0 (0.0)

4 (4.0)

1 (2.8)

6 (6.8)

 Mono chemotherapy

37 (5.4)

6 (3.6)

1 (0.7)

5 (3.5)

9 (9.1)

11 (30.6)

5 (5.7)

 Dual chemotherapy

350 (51.3)

111 (66.1)

50 (34.3)

66 (45.5)

57 (57.6)

21 (58.3)

45 (51.1)

 Triple chemotherapy

238 (34.9)

48 (28.6)

82 (56.2)

74 (51.0)

11 (11.1)

1 (2.8)

22 (25.0)

 Anti-HER2 based

9 (1.3)

2 (1.2)

2 (1.4)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

5 (5.8)

 Anti-PD1 IO

26 (3.8)

1 (0.6)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

18 (18.2)

2 (5.6)

5 (5.7)

  1. EAC Esophageal adenocarcinoma, GC Gastric cancer, GEJC Gastroesophageal junction cancer, HER2 Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, IQR Interquartile range, PD1 IO Programmed cell death protein 1 immuno-oncology, SD Standard deviation, UK United Kingdom, US United States