Table 1.

Demography data of 97 patients with NSCLC for Notch gene analysis

Patient characteristics	N (%)	Notch1 (mean ± SD)	p value	Notch2 (mean ± SD)	p value	Notch3 (mean ± SD)	p value	Notch4 (mean ± SD)	p value
Age, years old
Age < 70	48 (49.5%)	0.84 ± 0.36	0.29	1.07 ± 0.50	0.62	2.83 ± 4.71	0.16	0.39 ± 0.27	0.50
Age ≥ 70	49 (50.5%)	0.75 ± 0.45		1.12 ± 0.42		1.83 ± 1.29		0.36 ± 0.23
Gender
Male	58 (59.8%)	0.83 ± 0.43	0.33	1.01 ± 0.49	0.03	2.89 ± 4.34	0.05	0.40 ± 0.28	0.16
Female	39 (40.2%)	0.74 ± 0.36		1.21 ± 0.38		1.50 ± 0.86		0.33 ±0.18
Smoking status
Never	47 (48.5%)	0.77 ± 0.41	0.50	1.21 ± 0.43	0.02	1.52 ± 0.98	0.02	0.32 ± 0.19	0.04
Ever or current smoking	50 (51.5%)	0.82 ± 0.40		0.98 ± 0.46		3.09 ± 4.61		0.42 ± 0.28
Histology
Adenocarcinoma	75 (77.3%)	0.73 ± 0.36	0.01	1.23 ± 0.42	<0.001	1.86 ± 1.48	0.03	0.34 ± 0.20	0.06
Squamous cell carcinoma	19 (19.6%)	1.02 ± 0.47		0.64 ± 0.20		4.17 ± 7.06		0.48 ± 0.36
Others	3 (3.1%)	1.01 ± 0.73		0.54 ± 0.29		2.30 ± 1.75		0.48 ± 0.27
Disease stage
I	52 (53.6%)	0.76 ± 0.41	0.45	0.96 ± 0.37	0.002	2.64 ± 4.58	0.80	0.37 ± 0.29	0.81
II	25 (25.8%)	0.80 ± 0.37		1.15 ± 0.44		1.97 ± 1.18		0.36 ± 0.18
IIIA	18 (18.6%)	0.91 ± 0.44		1.41 ± 0.54		2.06 ± 1.35		0.43 ± 0.21
Cancer recurrence
Yes	45 (46.4%)	0.84 ± 0.42	0.36	1.22 ± 0.51	0.008	2.14 ± 1.77	0.63	0.38 ± 0.23	0.81
No	52 (53.6%)	0.76 ± 0.40		0.98 ± 0.37		2.49 ± 4.44		0.37 ± 0.26

SD: standard deviation