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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 5.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Clin Oncol. 2018 Nov;41(11):1125–1131. doi: 10.1097/COC.0000000000000433

Table 1.

Patient, disease and treatment characteristics (n=303) – excluded non-adenocarcinoma (n=5)

Patient characteristics

Age, years
 Median (range) 70 (33–90)

Gender
 Male 152 (50.2%)
 Female 151 (49.8%)

Race
 Caucasian 277 (91.4%)
 Other 12 (4.0%)
 Unknown 14 (4.6%)

Body mass index
 Median (range) 24.8 (14.5–45.8)

Comorbidities
 Diabetes 176 (58.1%)
 Coronary artery disease 37 (12.2%)
 Hyperlipidemia 73 (24.1%)
 Hypertension 207 (68.3%)

Medications
 Metformin 41 (13.5%)
 Pancreatic enzymes 130 (42.9%)
 Sulfonylurea 23 (7.6%)
 Insulin 158 (52.1%)
 Statin (active use during treatment) 71 (23.4%)
 Statin (before or at diagnosis) 59 (19.5%)
 Glucocorticoid 91 (30.0%)
 Beta-blocker (before or at diagnosis) 53 (17.5%)
 Beta-blocker (active use) 107 (35.3%)

Disease characteristics

Histology
 Adenocarcinoma 303 (100%)

Lymph node status
 cN0 127 (41.9%)
 cN+ 164 (54.1%)
 Not reported 12 (4.0%)

Resectability
 Unresectable 149 (49.2%)
 Borderline resectable 40 (13.2%)
 Resectable 111 (36.6%)
 Unknown 3 (1.0%)

Treatment characteristics

Surgery
 Yes 136 (44.9%)
 No 167 (55.1%)

Immunotherapy
 Yes 12 (4.0%)
 No 291 (96.0%)

Chemotherapy
 Yes 248 (81.8%)
 No 55 (18.2%)