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. 2024 May 1;16(9):1764. doi: 10.3390/cancers16091764

Table 2.

Disease characteristics.

Subgroup N (%)
Tumor specimen
Tissue 912 (92.9%)
Cytology 70 (7.1%)
Histologic subtype
Adenocarcinoma 474 (48.3%)
Squamous 280 (28.5%)
SCLC 142 (14.5%)
NSCLC NOS 31 (3.2%)
LCNEC 17 (1.7%)
Other 37 (3.8%)
PD-L1
<1% 180 (27.1%)
1–49% 247 (37.2%)
≥50% 237 (35.7%)
Driver mutations
No 368 (71.8%)
Yes 144 (28.2%)
Stage at treatment initiation
II 2 (0.2%)
IIIA 36 (3.7%)
IIIB 62 (6.3%)
IIIC 17 (1.7%)
IVA 357 (36.4%)
IVB 508 (51.7%)
Metastatic sites
Contralateral Lung 383 (39%)
Pleura 348 (35.4%)
Brain 188 (19.1%)
Bone 310 (31.5%)
Liver 194 (19.7%)
Adrenal gland 182 (18.5%)
Other 309 (31.5%)
Checkpoint inhibitor
PD-1 inhibitor 670 (68.1%)
PD-L1 inhibitor 221 (22.5%)
PD-1 + CTLA-4 inhibitor 92 (9.4%)
Concurrent chemotherapy
No 499 (50.8%)
Platinum-pemetrexed 211 (21.5%)
Platinum-etoposide 157 (16%)
Platinum-taxane 103 (10.5%)
Single-agent chemotherapy 12 (1.2%)
Concurrent radiotherapy 193 (19.8%)
Objective Response
Complete response (CR) 6 (0.7%)
Partial response (PR) 200 (22.1%)
Stable disease (SD) 249 (27.5%)
Progressive disease (PD) 450 (49.7%)
Subsequent therapy
Chemotherapy 345 (89.8%)
Targeted therapy 17 (4.4%)
Chemoimmunotherapy 14 (3.7%)
Radiotherapy 5 (1.3%)
Immunotherapy 3 (0.8%)

Abbreviations: LCNEC, large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma; NSCLC NOS, non-small-cell lung cancer not otherwise specified; SCLC, small-cell lung cancer.