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. 2005 Jul 26;93(3):355–363. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602707

Table 1. Characteristics of 154 patients included in the study.

Patients characteristics  
Age (year)
 Median (range) 68 (31–83)
 
Gender (no.)
 Female (%) 60 (39.0%)
 Male (%) 94 (61.0%)
 
Smoking status (no.)
 Non smoker (%) 56 (36.4%)
 Smoker (%) 98 (63.6%)
  Former 29
  Current 69
 
Pack-year of smokers (pack-year)
 All smokers  
  Median (range) 48 (2–250)
 Former  
  Median (range) 30 (2–105)
 Current  
  Median (range) 51 (6–250)
 
Tumour histology (no.)
 Adenocarcinoma 108 (70.1%)
 Squamous cell 31 (20.1%)
 Large cell 9 (5.9%)
 Other histologies 6 (3.9%)
 
Pathological stage (no.)
 IA 63 (41.3%)
 IB 38 (24.5%)
 IIA 4 (2.6%)
 IIB 11 (7.1%)
 IIIA 26 (16.8%)
 IIIB 10 (6.4%)
 IV 2 (1.3%)