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Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Jun 26;49(2):192–202. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.06.003

Table 2.

Moderate to Severe Symptoms in Early and Late Stage Lung and Colorectal Cancer (N=5422)

Symptom	Symptom is Moderate/Severe N (%)
	Lung Cancer (N=2411)		Colorectal Cancer (N=3011)
	Early Stage (N=1295)	Late Stage (N=1116)	Early Stage (N=2426)	Late Stage (N=585)
Any Symptom	851 (65.7%) ^a, ^b	820 (73.5%) ^a, ^c	840 (34.6%) ^a, ^b	240 (41.0%) ^a, ^c
Pain	220 (17.0%) ^b	223 (20.0%)	278 (11.5%) ^a, ^b	94 (16.1%) ^a
Fatigue	478 (36.9%) ^a, ^b	484 (43.4%) ^a, ^c	598 (24.7%) ^b	167 (28.6%) ^c
Depressive symptoms	227 (17.5%) ^b	209 (18.7%)	306 (12.6%) ^b	82 (14.0%)
Nausea/vomiting	79 (6.1%) ^a	102 (9.1%) ^a	104 (4.3%) ^a	40 (6.8%) ^a
Cough	513 (39.6%)	497 (44.5%)	N/A	N/A
Dyspnea	289 (22.3%)	273 (24.5%)	N/A	N/A
Diarrhea	N/A	N/A	29 (1.2%)	11 (1.9%)
Total	2657	2608	2155	634

^a

P<0.01 Comparison between early stage and late stage within cancer type.

^b

P<0.01 Comparison between early stage lung and early stage colorectal.

^c

P<0.01 Comparison between late stage lung and late stage colorectal.