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. 2014 Jan 31;14:14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2490-14-14

Table 1.

Demographic and clinicopathologic characteristics for subjects in each stage of the multi-stage design

  Affymetrix microarray
RT-PCR
Stage 1: non-obese subjects
Stage 2: obese subjects
Stage 3: non-obese subjects
Non-smokers 30 (65%) Smokers 16 (35%) p-value Non-smokers 12 (63%) Smokers 7 (37%) p-value Non-smokers 54 (66%) Smokers 28 (34%) p-value
Gender
 
 
0.2170
 
 
0.1698
 
 
0.0273
 Male
14 (47%)
11 (69%)
 
4 (33%)
5 (71%)
 
30 (56%)
23 (82%)
 
 Female
16 (53%)
5 (31%)
 
8 (67%)
2 (29%)
 
24 (44%)
5 (18%)
 
Age at surgery
 
 
0.2537
 
 
0.8584
 
 
0.4597
 <50
3 (10%)
3 (19%)
 
2 (17%)
1 (14%)
 
9 (17%)
5 (18%)
 
 50-79
24 (80%)
13 (81%)
 
9 (75%)
6 (86%)
 
41 (76%)
23 (82%)
 
 ≥80
2 (7%)
0
 
1 (8%)
0
 
4 (7%)
0
 
 Unknown
1 (3%)
0
 
0
0
 
0
0
 
Nuclear grade
 
 
0.2032
 
 
0.5834
 
 
0.2000
 1
3 (10%)
1 (6%)
 
4 (33%)
2 (29%)
 
5 (9%)
3 (11%)
 
 2
18 (60%)
7 (44%)
 
8 (67%)
4 (57%)
 
17 (32%)
7 (25%)
 
 3
9 (30%)
8 (50%)
 
0
1 (14%)
 
24 (44%)
11 (39%)
 
 4
0
0
 
0
0
 
8 (15%)
7 (25%)
 
Pathologic tumor stage
 
 
0.0123
 
 
0.5926
 
 
0.4713
 pT1
24 (80%)
7 (44%)
 
9 (75%)
6 (86%)
 
31 (57%)
11 (39%)
 
 pT2
2 (7%)
2 (12%)
 
2 (17%)
1 (14%)
 
4 (7%)
4 (14%)
 
 pT3
4 (13%)
7 (44%)
 
1 (8%)
0
 
18 (33%)
13 (46%)
 
 pT4
0
0
 
0
0
 
1 (2%)
0
 
Presence of necrosis
 
 
0.2829
 
 
1.0000
 
 
0.4739
 Yes
5 (17%)
5 (31%)
 
1 (8%)
1 (14%)
 
19 (35%)
13 (46%)
 
 No
25 (83%)
11 (69%)
 
11 (92%)
6 (86%)
 
34 (63%)
15 (54%)
 
 Unknown 0 0   0 0   1 (2%) 0