Table 2.
Baseline prevalence of comorbidity among lung cancer patients and mean survival days by comorbidity and stage of lung cancer at diagnosis
| Comorbidity |
Stage |
P-value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
I |
II |
III |
IV |
||||||
| N = 214 | N = 104 | N = 399 | N = 378 | ||||||
| |
% |
Mean |
% |
Mean |
% |
Mean |
% |
Mean |
|
| Other cancer |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| No |
91.6 |
1235 |
96.2 |
1072 |
94.7 |
718 |
94.4 |
467 |
- |
| Yes |
8.4 |
1157 |
3.8 |
334 |
5.3 |
829 |
5.6 |
853 |
0.093 |
| Tuberculosis |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| No |
92.5 |
1247 |
89.4 |
1075 |
90.2 |
743 |
89.4 |
500 |
- |
| Yes |
7.5 |
1002 |
10.6 |
774 |
9.8 |
553 |
10.6 |
395 |
0.004 |
| COPD |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| No |
92.1 |
1213 |
94.2 |
1038 |
95.5 |
726 |
96.3 |
491 |
- |
| Yes |
7.9 |
1408 |
5.8 |
1123 |
4.5 |
685 |
3.7 |
435 |
<0.001 |
| Diabetes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| No |
86.9 |
1280 |
90.4 |
1065 |
88.7 |
752 |
88.1 |
492 |
- |
| Yes |
13.1 |
889 |
9.6 |
836 |
11.3 |
503 |
11.9 |
466 |
0.008 |
| Hypertension |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| No |
70.1 |
1209 |
77.9 |
1111 |
75.4 |
757 |
73.0 |
498 |
- |
| Yes | 29.9 | 1275 | 22.1 | 806 | 24.6 | 622 | 27.0 | 465 | <0.001 |
Mean: Average of survival days.
COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Missing data: 16 cases.