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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 2022 Jun 16;149(5):1755–1763. doi: 10.1007/s00432-022-04089-9

Table 1.

Characteristics of study cohort (N = 1746)

Patient/clinical
characteristic
Total (N = 1746) EGFR (n = 458) ALK (n = 65) BRAF (n = 146) KRAS (n = 1077) p value
Sex, n (%)
 Male 730 (41.8) 163 (35.6) 33 (50.8) 68 (46.6) 466 (43.3) 0.008
 Female 1016 (58.2) 295 (64.4) 32 (49.2) 78 (53.4) 611 (56.7)
Age, n (%)
 < 65 years 609 (34.9) 161 (35.2) 34 (52.3) 46 (31.5) 368 (34.2) 0.022
 ≥ 65 years 1137 (65.1) 297 (64.8) 31 (47.7) 100 (68.5) 709 (65.8)
Histology, n (%)
 Nonsquamous 1584 (90.7) 425 (92.8) 58 (89.2) 124 (84.9) 977 (90.7) 0.111
 Squamous 115 (6.6) 24 (5.2) 6 (9.2) 17 (11.6) 68 (6.3)
 NSCLC NOS 47 (2.7) 9 (2.0) 1 (1.5) 5 (3.4) 32 (3.0)
Checkpoint inhibitor, n (%)
 First line 520 (29.8) 40 (8.7) 11 (16.9) 57 (39.0) 412 (38.3) < 0.001
 Second line 751 (43.0) 161 (35.2) 19 (29.2) 73 (50.0) 498 (46.2)
 ≥ Third line 475 (27.2) 257 (56.1) 35 (53.8) 16 (11.0) 167 (15.5)
Smoking history, n (%)
 Yes 1412 (80.9) 240 (52.4) 29 (44.6) 126 (86.3) 1017 (94.4) < 0.001
 No 334 (19.1) 218 (47.6) 36 (55.4) 20 (13.7) 60 (5.6)
PD-L1 expression, n (%)*
 ≥ 1% 587 (74.1) 116 (69.5) 25 (80.6) 62 (77.5) 384 (74.7) 0.370
 < 1% 205 (25.9) 51 (30.5) 6 (19.4) 18 (22.5) 130 (25.3)
*

A subset of 792 patients had available data on percentage of tumor cells staining for PD-L1