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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lung Cancer. 2012 Dec 27;79(3):193–197. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2012.12.002

Table 2.

Patient, Tumor and Other Characteristics by Tumor Genotype

EGFR mutation+ KRAS mutation+ ^ ALK translocation ^ EGFR WT/KRAS WT/ALK FISH negative

(n=97) (n=15) p (n=26) p (n=45) p

Age (years) 0.627 0.011 0.168
 Median (range) 57 (26–83) 61 (31–74) 47.5 (29–81) 54 (26–79)

Sex 0.135 0.092 0.327
 Female 70 (72%) 8 (53%) 14 (54%) 29 (64%)
 Male 26 (28%) 7 (47%) 12 (46%) 16 (36%)

Ethnicity 0.070* 0.781* 0.239*
 White 71 (73%) 13 (86%) 19 (73%) 34 (76%)
 Asian 19 (19%) 0 (0%) 4 (15%) 5 (11%)
 Black 5 (5%) 1 (7%) 0 (0%) 4 (9%)
 Hispanic/Other 2 (2%) 1 (7%) 3 (12%) 2 (4%)

Stage <0.001 0.350 0.014
 I–III 28 (29%) 12 (80%) 10 (38%) 23 (51%)
  IV 69 (71%) 3 (20%) 16 (62%) 22 (49%)

Histology 0.378# 1.000# 0.410#
 Adenocarcinoma 87 (90%) 12 (80%) 24 (92%) 38 (84%)
 Squamous cell 2 (2%) 1 (7%) 0 (0%) 2 (4%)
 Other 8 (8%) 2 (13%) 2 (8%) 5 (11%)

Family History
 Any Cancer 53 (55%) 5 (33%) 0.167 19 (73%) 0.117 29 (64%) 0.361
 Lung Cancer 22 (23%) 1 (7%) 0.300 3 (12%) 0.278 9 (20%) 0.829
 Other Cancers 31 (32%) 4 (26%) 0.773 16 (62%) 0.011 20 (44%) 0.188
*

Asian versus non-Asian;

#

Adenocarcinoma versus non-adenocarcinoma

+

one patient with a tumor with EGFR mutation and KRAS mutation was excluded from analysis

^

one patient with a tumor with ALK translocation and KRAS mutation was excluded from analysis

EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor; KRAS, V-Ki-ras2 Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog; ALK, anaplastic lymphoma kinase; FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridization