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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Aug 25.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2025 Sep 15;31(18):3922–3931. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-1071

Table 1:

Characteristics of patients with NUT carcinoma

Characteristic Overall cohort (n=116) DNA cohort (n=100) Exon fusion cohort (n=46)

Age, median (range) — years 38 (7–76) 38 (9–76) 39 (7–73)
Sex — no. (%)
 Female 47 (40.5%) 40 (40.0%) 18 (39.1%)
 Male 69 (59.5%) 60 (60.0%) 28 (60.9%)
Race, self-reported — no./total no. (%)
 White 66/91 (72.5%) 59/81 (72.8%) 24/36 (66.7%)
 Black/African American 7/91 (7.7%) 6/81 (7.4%) 5/36 (13.9%)
 Asian 12/91 (13.2%) 10/81 (12.3%) 5/36 (13.9%)
 Other 6/91 (6.6%) 6/81 (7.4%) 2/36 (5.6%)
 Unknown 25 19 10
Ethnicity, self-reported — no./total no. (%)
 Hispanic 3/83 (3.6%) 3/75 (4.0%) 2/33 (6.1%)
 Not Hispanic 80/83 (96.4%) 72/75 (96.0%) 31/33 (93.9%)
 Unknown 33 25 13
Cigarette Smoking History — no./total no. (%)
 Never 82/104 (78.8%) 72/90 (80.0%) 26/38 (68.4%)
 Former or Current 22/104 (21.2%) 18/90 (20.0%) 12/38 (31.6%)
  Pack-years, median (range) 0 (0–20) 0 (0–20) 0 (0–15)
 Unknown 12 10 8
Disease stage
 Metastatic 67/116 (57.8%) 56/100 (56.0%) 26/46 (56.5%)
 Non-metastatic 49/116 (42.2%) 44/100 (44.0%) 20/46 (43.5%)
Site of Primary Disease — no./total no. (%)
 Thoracic 73/116 (62.9%) 63/100 (63.0%) 32/46 (69.6%)
 Non-thoracic 43/116 (37.1%) 37/100 (37.0%) 14/46 (30.4%)
  Head and Neck 38/43 (88.4%) 33/37 (89.2%) 12/14 (85.7%)
  Other 5/43 (11.6%) 4/37 (10.8%) 2/14 (14.3%)
NUTM1 - fusion partner — no./total no. (%)
BRD4 55/93 (59.1%) 47/80 (58.8%) 22/46 (47.8%)
 Non-BRD4 38/93 (40.9%) 33/80 (41.3%) 24/46 (52.2%)
  BRD3 18/36 (50.0%) 14/31 (45.2%) 13/24 (54.2%)
  NSD3 16/36 (44.4%) 16/31 (51.6%) 9/24 (37.5%)
  BRD2 1/36 (2.8%) 1/31 (3.2%) 1/24 (4.2%)
  ZNF592 1/36 (2.8%) N/A 1/24 (4.2%)
  Non-BRD4, Fusion Unknown 2 2 N/A
 Unknown 23 20 N/A
PD-L1 Score
 Tumor Proportion Score (%), median (range) 0 (0–70) 0 (0–70) 0 (0–70)
  Tumor Proportion Score (%) < 1 — no./total no. (%) 50/60 (83.3%) 47/55 (85.5%) 22/28 (78.6%)
  Tumor Proportion Score (%) ≥ 1 — no./total no. (%) 10/60 (16.7%) 8/55 (14.5%) 6/28 (21.4%)
 Combined Proportion Score (%), median (range) 0 (0–30) 0 (0–30) 5 (0–20)
  Combined Proportion Score (%) < 1 — no./total no. (%) 7/13 (53.8%) 6/11 (54.5%) 2/5 (40.0%)
  Combined Proportion Score (%) ≥ 1 — no./total no. (%) 6/13 (46.2%) 5/11 (45.5%) 3/5 (60.0%)
 Unknown 43 34 13
Tumor Mutation Burden (TMB)
 TMB (mut/Mb), median (range) 1.0 (0–16) 1.0 (0–16) 1.6 (0–16)
 Unknown 43 29 19