Table 3.
Demographics and Clinical Characteristics by histopathologic tumor type.
| Variable | Caicinoid | MEC | AD | SCC | NET | Blastoma | Atypical | Other | P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89 | 37 | 31 | 12 | 16 | 67 | 7 | 42 | ||
| Gender | 0.64 | ||||||||
| Male | 39 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 34 | 4 | 25 | |
| Female | 50 | 20 | 19 | 6 | 10 | 33 | 3 | 17 | |
| Race | 0.29 | ||||||||
| White | 79 | 25 | 25 | 7 | 12 | 58 | 5 | 29 | |
| Black | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 8 | |
| AI | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| API | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Primary site | <0.01 | ||||||||
| Upper | 20 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 2 | 12 | |
| Middle | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Lower | 36 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 8 | |
| Overlapping | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
| T and B | 16 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | |
| NOS | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 13 | |
| Laterality | <0.01 | ||||||||
| Right | 55 | 21 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 3 | 20 | |
| Left | 33 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 9 | 36 | 4 | 15 | |
| Bilaterality | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
| NOS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Grade | <0.01 | ||||||||
| I | 22 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| II | 2 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| III | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | |
| IV | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | |
| Unknown | 65 | 6 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 59 | 4 | 27 | |
| Surgery | <0.01 | ||||||||
| Yes | 83 | 27 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 63 | 6 | 19 | |
| No | 6 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 23 | |
| Local tumor destruction or excision | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| sublobar resection | 10 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 5 | |
| Bronchial sleeve resection | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| lobectomy | 50 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 3 | 8 | |
| Pneumonectomy | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Lobe or bilobectomy extended | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| resection NOS | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | |
| TNM stage | <0.01 | ||||||||
| I | 24 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| II | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| III | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| IV | 1 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Unknown | 52 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 66 | 1 | 32 | |
| Radiotherapy | <0.01 | ||||||||
| Yes | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 3 | |
| N0 | 87 | 35 | 26 | 9 | 11 | 60 | 6 | 39 | |
| Chemotherapy | |||||||||
| yes | 1 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 46 | 1 | 28 | <0.01 |
| no | 88 | 36 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 6 | 14 |
AI, American Indian/Alaska Native; API, Asian or Pacific Islander; T and B, Trachea and Main bronchus; Overlapping, Overlapping lesion of lung; MEC, mucoepidermoid carcinoma; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma; NET, neuroendocrine tumor.