Table 3.
Characteristics of lung cancer patients of 0–54 years old diagnosed during 2001–2009.
| Variable | Total n (%) |
Male n (%) |
Female n (%) |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 391,319 (100) | 200,279 (51.2) | 191,040 (48.8) | ||
| Race | ||||
| NHW | 124,667 (73.2) | 60,385 (48.4) | 64,282 (51.6) | < 0.0001 |
| NHB | 26,732 (15.7) | 14,201 (53.1) | 12,531 (46.9) | |
| Hispanic | 10,825 (6.4) | 5231 (48.3) | 5594 (51.7) | |
| API | 6267 (3.7) | 2964 (47.3) | 3303 (52.7) | |
| AIAN | 1130 (0.7) | 501 (44.3) | 629 (55.7) | |
| Region | ||||
| Northeast | 75,417 (19.3) | 36,361 (48.2) | 39,056 (51.8) | < 0.0001 |
| Midwest | 96,011 (24.5) | 48,869 (50.9) | 47,142 (49.1) | |
| South | 164,593 (42.1) | 87,665 (53.3) | 76,928 (46.7) | |
| West | 55,298 (14.1) | 27,384 (49.5) | 27,914 (50.5) | |
| Histology | ||||
| Small cell | 56,193 (14.4) | 27,692 (49.3) | 28,501 (50.7) | < 0.0001 |
| NSCLC | 303,892 (77.7) | 15,4487 (50.8) | 149,405 (49.2) | |
| Adenocarcinoma | 162,493 (41.5) | 73,125 (45.0) | 89,368 (55.0) | |
| Squamous cell | 55,501 (14.2) | 37,034 (66.7) | 18,467 (33.3) | |
| Other NSCLC | 85,898 (22.0) | 44,328 (51.6) | 41,570 (48.4) | |
| Other | 31,234 (8.0) | 18,100 (57.9) | 13,134 (42.1) | |
NSCLC non-small cell lung cancer.