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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Oncol. 2015 Dec 25;11(4):556–565. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2015.12.103

Table 2. Clinical Subsets of EGFR-Mutated Patients by Survival Group.

Characteristic Category No. (%)

<2 years n = 46 2 - <5 years n = 71 5+ years n = 20 Total n = 137 P Value
Gender Female 35 (76) 54 (76) 17 (85) 106 (77) 0.75
Male 11 (24) 17 (24) 3 (15) 31 (23)

Race White 41 (89) 62 (87) 15 (75) 118 (86) 0.14
Asian 3 (7) 6 (8) 4 (20) 13 (9)
Black 0 (0) 3 (4) 1 (5) 4 (3)
Other/Missing 2 (4) 0 (0) 0 (0) 2 (1)

Smoking Statusa Never 25 (54) 41 (58) 11 (55) 77 (56) 0.38
Former 17 (37) 29 (41) 9 (45) 55 (40)
Current 4 (9) 1 (1) 0 (0) 5 (4)

Stageb I 2 (4) 5 (7) 4 (20) 11 (8) 0.26
II 2 (4) 5 (7) 1 (5) 8 (6)
III 7 (15) 4 (6) 1 (5) 12 (9)
IV 35 (76) 57 (80) 14 (70) 106 (77)

Age at Diagnosis of Metastatic Disease Mean (SD) 60.8 (11.8) 58.5 (10.4) 59.2 (11.1) 59.4 (10.9) 0.48
Median (Q1, Q3) 63 (53, 70) 58 (50, 66) 62 (54, 64) 60 (51, 67)

Presence of Extrathoracic Metastasisc No 13 (28) 31 (44) 14 (70) 58 (42) 0.01
Yes 33 (72) 40 (56) 6 (30) 79 (58)

Liver Metastasisc No 36 (78) 61 (86) 19 (95) 116 (85) 0.22
Yes 10 (22) 10 (14) 1 (5) 21 (15)

Adrenal Metastasisc No 44 (96) 69 (97) 20 (100) 133 (97) 0.81
Yes 2 (4) 2 (3) 0 (0) 4 (3)

Bone Metastasisc No 19 (41) 44 (62) 15 (75) 78 (57) 0.02
Yes 27 (59) 27 (38) 5 (25) 59 (43)

Brain Metastasisc No 30 (65) 57 (80) 20 (100) 107 (78) 0.003
Yes 16 (35) 14 (20) 0 (0) 30 (22)

Exon of EGFR Mutation 18 2 (4) 2 (3) 0 (0) 4 (3) 0.06
19 19 (41) 41 (59) 16 (80) 76 (55)
21 24 (52) 26 (38) 4 (20) 54 (39)
18, 21d 0 (0) 2 (3) 0 (0) 2 (1)
20, 21d 1 (2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)

EGFR AA Change Exon 19 Deletion 19 (41) 41 (58) 16 (80) 76 (55) 0.09
L858R 19 (41) 24 (34) 4 (20) 47 (34)
L861Q/R 5 (11) 2 (3) 0 (0) 7 (5)
G719 2 (4) 2 (3) 0 (0) 4 (3)
L861+G719d 0 (0) 2 (3) 0 (0) 2 (1)
L858R+T790Md 1 (2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)

EGFR-TKI Erlotinib 43 (93) 61 (86) 17 (85) 121 (88) 0.38
Gefitinib 3 (7) 10 (14) 3 (15) 16 (12)

Line of TKI First-Line 31 (67) 46 (65) 16 (80) 93 (68) 0.74
Second-Line 14 (30) 21 (30) 3 (15) 38 (28)
Third-Line 1 (2) 3 (4) 1 (5) 5 (4)
Fourth-Line 0 (0) 1 (1) 0 (0) 1 (1)

Abbreviations: OS, overall survival; SD, standard deviation; Q1, first quartile; Q3, third quartile; AA, amino acid.

a

Never: <100 lifetime cigarettes; Former: quit ≥1 year before therapy; Current: active or quit within 1 year prior to therapy.

b

Initial staging at time of diagnosis:AJCC Staging System, 7th edition.

c

Presence or absence of metastasis at the specified site, characterized at up to 1 month within start of therapy.

d

Outlier, removed from analysis for the computation of P value.