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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 8.
Published in final edited form as: Lung Cancer. 2012 Jan 9;76(3):350–353. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2011.11.025

Table 2.

Patient characteristics

All patients (n=121) RP patients (n=21)
“unambiguous” (n=11) “hard to score” (n= 10)
Mean age (range, years) 60 (39–86) 65 (42–85) 64 (47–85)
Gender (male) 76 (63%) 7 (33%) 6 (29%)
Stage
 I 8 (7%) - 3 (14%)
 II 8 (7%) 1 (5%) 3 (14%)
 III 105 (86%) 10 (48%) 4 (19%)
Smoking history* 109 (92%) 10 (48%) 9 (43%)
Ongoing smoking* 56 (47%) 2 (10%) 7 (33%)
Primary tumor location
 Upper lobe 91 (75%) 7 (33%) 8 (38%)
Middle and/or lower lobe 30 (25%) 4 (19%) 2 (95%)
COPD history 48 (40%) 3 (14%) 7 (33%)
Pre-FEV1 <1.7 L ** 50 (42%) 5 (24%) 8 (38%)

Abbreviations: RP= radiation pneumonitis

*

Available in the 119 patients.

**

Using 1.7 L as a cut-point (the median value in our patients). Available in the 118 patients