Table 1.

Baseline patients’ characteristics and initial clinical diagnosis^*

Characteristics		Placebo (N=126)	Chemo (N=124)	p-value
Age – median (min, max)		63(40,81)	61(37,78)	0.2180
Gender	Male	84 (67%)	77 (62%)	0.4505
	Female	42 (33%)	47 (38%)
Race	White	109 (87%)	112 (91%)	0.3296
	Non-white	16 (13%)	11 (9%)
Performance Status	Fully active	71 (57%)	68 (55%)	0.7011
	Others	53 (43%)	56 (45%)
Weight loss in previous 6 months	< 5%	96 (81%)	92 (80%)	0.7932
	≥ 5%	22 (19%)	23 (20%)
Symptoms	Presence	96 (76%)	99 (80%)	0.4863
	Absence	30 (24%)	25 (20%)
Diagnosis	Squamous cell	40 (32%)	46 (37%)	0.6440
	Adenocarcinoma	68 (54%)	61 (50%)
	Other types	18 (14%)	16 (13%)
Smoking History	Yes	125 (99%)	120 (97%)	0.1696
	No	1 (1%)	4 (3%)

^*The p-value for age was from the t-test, while Chi-square tests were used for the categorical variables.