Table 1.
Subject characteristics for overall North Carolina CanCORS and subset in whose primary tumors EMT markers were measured
| Characteristic mean (SD) or N (%)a | Overall NC-CanCORS |
EMT study sample |
P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (N = 990) | (N = 190) | ||||
| Age at baseline (years) | 66.3 | 13.2 | 66.6 | 13.1 | 0.8 |
| Sex | 0.6 | ||||
| Male | 488 | 49.3 % | 90 | 47.4 % | |
| Female | 502 | 50.7 % | 100 | 52.6 % | |
| Race | 0.6 | ||||
| Non-hispanic white | 762 | 77.0 % | 150 | 78.9 % | |
| Other | 228 | 23.0 % | 40 | 21.1 % | |
| Tumor stage | 0.9 | ||||
| Local | 437 | 51.1 % | 100 | 52.6 % | |
| Regional | 311 | 36.4 % | 66 | 34.7 % | |
| Distant | 107 | 12.5 % | 24 | 12.6 % | |
| Missing/noninformative | 135 | 0 | |||
| Tumor location | 0.07 | ||||
| Proximal | 279 | 42.9 % | 82 | 50.9 % | |
| Distal | 371 | 57.1 % | 79 | 49.1 % | |
| Missing/noninformative | 340 | 29 | |||
| Tumor grade | 0.4 | ||||
| Well/moderately differentiated | 539 | 83.7 % | 129 | 81.1 % | |
| Poorly/not differentiated | 105 | 16.3 % | 30 | 18.9 % | |
| Missing/noninformative | 346 | 31 | |||
| Neoadjuvant chemotherapy | 0.3 | ||||
| Yes | 46 | 8.5 % | 8 | 5.7 % | |
| No | 496 | 91.5 % | 132 | 94.3 % | |
| Missing/noninformative | 448 | 50 | |||
| Neoadjuvant radiation | 0.09 | ||||
| Yes | 41 | 7.6 % | 5 | 3.6 % | |
| No | 501 | 92.4 % | 135 | 96.4 % | |
| Missing/noninformative | 448 | 50 | |||
| Died within 5 years of baseline | 366 | 37.0 % | 62 | 32.6 % | 0.3 |
a
Percentages are for informative non-missing data