Table 2.
Pretreatment Characteristics
| Characteristic | Patients (N = 82) |
|
|---|---|---|
| No. | % | |
| Age, years | ||
| Median | 63 | |
| Range | 32-83 | |
| Sex | ||
| Male | 32 | 39 |
| Female | 50 | 61 |
| Ethnicity | ||
| Hispanic or Latino | 2 | 2 |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 77 | 94 |
| Unknown* | 3 | 4 |
| American Indian or Alaskan Native | 2 | 2 |
| African American | 4 | 5 |
| White | 75 | 91 |
| More than one ethnicity | 1 | 1 |
| Zubrod performance score | ||
| 0 | 38 | 46 |
| 1 | 44 | 54 |
| Radiographic T stage† | ||
| 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 3 | 17 | 21 |
| 4 | 57 | 70 |
| X | 0 | 0 |
| Radiographic N stage† | ||
| 0 | 47 | 57 |
| 1 | 21 | 26 |
| X | 14 | 17 |
| Tumor stage† | ||
| IA | 3 | 4 |
| IB | 2 | 2 |
| IIA | 9 | 11 |
| IIB | 8 | 10 |
| III | 57 | 70 |
| Unknown | 3 | 4 |
*
No reported ethnicity.
†
Staging according to American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging Manual (ed 6).17