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. 2024 Feb 22;4:27. doi: 10.1038/s43856-024-00445-7

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

Breast Cancer (N = 2,095,339) Melanoma (N = 472,611) Colon Cancer (N = 627,090) Kidney Cancer (N = 407,627) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (N = 1,060,774) Small Cell Lung Cancer (N = 164,864)
Brain metastases at diagnosis
No 2088262 (99.7%) 465699 (98.5%) 625084 (99.7%) 402508 (98.7%) 950988 (89.7%) 138505 (84.0%)
Yes 7077 (0.3%) 6912 (1.5%) 2006 (0.3%) 5119 (1.3%) 109786 (10.3%) 26359 (16.0%)
Patient age
Mean (SD) 61.3 (13.0) 63.1 (15.5) 67.3 (14.1) 62.9 (13.8) 68.8 (10.6) 67.5 (9.85)
Median [Min, Max] 62.0 [0, 90.0] 65.0 [0, 90.0] 68.0 [0, 90.0] 64.0 [0, 90.0] 69.0 [0, 90.0] 68.0 [19.0, 90.0]
Patient sex
Male 17829 (0.9%) 275382 (58.3%) 309380 (49.3%) 255114 (62.6%) 541647 (51.1%) 78009 (47.3%)
Female 2077510 (99.1%) 197229 (41.7%) 317710 (50.7%) 152513 (37.4%) 519127 (48.9%) 86855 (52.7%)
Patient race
White 1714434 (81.8%) 460958 (97.5%) 512225 (81.7%) 339784 (83.4%) 899491 (84.8%) 147441 (89.4%)
Black 249881 (11.9%) 2443 (0.5%) 81539 (13.0%) 48484 (11.9%) 116735 (11.0%) 13119 (8.0%)
Other 111696 (5.3%) 4092 (0.9%) 28384 (4.5%) 15600 (3.8%) 37840 (3.6%) 3346 (2.0%)
Unknown 19328 (0.9%) 5118 (1.1%) 4942 (0.8%) 3759 (0.9%) 6708 (0.6%) 958 (0.6%)
Tumor grade
Grade 1 357294 (17.1%) 1162 (0.2%) 60498 (9.6%) 28927 (7.1%) 70542 (6.7%) 252 (0.2%)
Grade 2 735946 (35.1%) 633 (0.1%) 308482 (49.2%) 115569 (28.4%) 197357 (18.6%) 526 (0.3%)
Grade 3 537971 (25.7%) 1342 (0.3%) 83118 (13.3%) 69809 (17.1%) 245370 (23.1%) 13523 (8.2%)
Grade 4 8065 (0.4%) 534 (0.1%) 16002 (2.6%) 25634 (6.3%) 9477 (0.9%) 19460 (11.8%)
Other/unknown 456063 (21.8%) 468940 (99.2%) 158990 (25.4%) 167688 (41.1%) 538028 (50.7%) 131103 (79.5%)
Clinical T stage
T0 9911 (0.5%) 5971 (1.3%) 3658 (0.6%) 777 (0.2%) 4692 (0.4%) 1573 (1.0%)
T1 825262 (39.4%) 127481 (27.0%) 60495 (9.6%) 202831 (49.8%) 290748 (27.4%) 23113 (14.0%)
T2 361479 (17.3%) 49305 (10.4%) 22571 (3.6%) 40606 (10.0%) 236697 (22.3%) 32922 (20.0%)
T3 73295 (3.5%) 27783 (5.9%) 61470 (9.8%) 29276 (7.2%) 130508 (12.3%) 22933 (13.9%)
T4 57510 (2.7%) 19508 (4.1%) 30053 (4.8%) 5633 (1.4%) 150584 (14.2%) 39347 (23.9%)
Other/unknown 767882 (36.6%) 242563 (51.3%) 448843 (71.6%) 128504 (31.5%) 247545 (23.3%) 44976 (27.3%)
Clinical N stage
N0 1468750 (70.1%) 352327 (74.5%) 350310 (55.9%) 291365 (71.5%) 445229 (42.0%) 22649 (13.7%)
N1 198121 (9.5%) 8611 (1.8%) 50496 (8.1%) 17187 (4.2%) 69733 (6.6%) 11847 (7.2%)
N2 32773 (1.6%) 3406 (0.7%) 17090 (2.7%) 1458 (0.4%) 243324 (22.9%) 70431 (42.7%)
N3 23396 (1.1%) 2734 (0.6%) 0 (0%) 94 (0.0%) 97859 (9.2%) 27861 (16.9%)
Other/unknown 372299 (17.8%) 105533 (22.3%) 209194 (33.4%) 97523 (23.9%) 204629 (19.3%) 32076 (19.5%)
Bone metastases at diagnosis
No 2034879 (97.1%) 468483 (99.1%) 619857 (98.8%) 387757 (95.1%) 907643 (85.6%) 129079 (78.3%)
Yes 60006 (2.9%) 3907 (0.8%) 6859 (1.1%) 19586 (4.8%) 150487 (14.2%) 34967 (21.2%)
Other/unknown 454 (0.0%) 221 (0.0%) 374 (0.1%) 284 (0.1%) 2644 (0.2%) 818 (0.5%)
Lung metastases at diagnosis
No 2067340 (98.7%) 463450 (98.1%) 598758 (95.5%) 379222 (93.0%) 940839 (88.7%) 144786 (87.8%)
Yes 26841 (1.3%) 8871 (1.9%) 26960 (4.3%) 27825 (6.8%) 112296 (10.6%) 17843 (10.8%)
Other/unknown 1158 (0.1%) 290 (0.1%) 1372 (0.2%) 580 (0.1%) 7639 (0.7%) 2235 (1.4%)
Liver metastases at diagnosis
No 2072684 (98.9%) 467899 (99.0%) 531661 (84.8%) 397322 (97.5%) 987762 (93.1%) 116882 (70.9%)
Yes 21935 (1.0%) 4491 (1.0%) 94815 (15.1%) 9925 (2.4%) 69450 (6.5%) 47216 (28.6%)
Other/unknown 720 (0.0%) 221 (0.0%) 614 (0.1%) 380 (0.1%) 3562 (0.3%) 766 (0.5%)
ER (SSF1)
Yes 1456995 (69.5%)
No 296930 (14.2%)
Other/unknown 341414 (16.3%)
PR (SSF2)
Yes 1266397 (60.4%)
No 463133 (22.1%)
Other/unknown 365809 (17.5%)
HER2 (SSF15)
Yes 216932 (10.4%)
No 1201940 (57.4%)
Other/unknown 676467 (32.3%)
Ulceration (SSF2)
Yes 52677 (11.1%)
No 319656 (67.6%)
Other/unknown 100278 (21.2%)
Tumor Histology a
Type 1 580274 (92.5%)
Type 2 46816 (7.5%)
CEA (SSF1)
Positive 152173 (24.3%)
Negative 161662 (25.8%)
Other/unknown 313255 (50.0%)
Tumor Histology b
Type 1 71623 (17.6%)
Type 2 288011 (70.7%)
Type 3 47993 (11.8%)
Sarcomatoid Features (SSF4)
Yes 11391 (2.8%)
No 257570 (63.2%)
Other/unknown 138666 (34.0%)
Fuhrman Nuclear Grade (SSF6)
1 28171 (6.9%)
2 125887 (30.9%)
3 69877 (17.1%)
4 19545 (4.8%)
Other/unknown 164147 (40.3%)
Tumor Histology c
Adenocarcinoma 530344 (50.0%)
Squamous Cell Carcinoma 297015 (28.0%)
Other/unknown 233415 (22.0%)

aFor colon histology,

Type 1 = Adenocarcinoma + carcinoma + tubulovillous adenocarcinoma + mucinous adenocarcinoma

Type 2 = Neuroendocrine + Other/unknown

bFor RCC histology,

Type 1 = Adenocarcinoma + papillary adenocarcinoma.

Type 2 = Renal cell carcinoma.

Type 3 = Urothelial cell carcinoma + Other/unknown.

cTumor histology for non-small cell lung cancer.