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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 21.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Jun;17(6):1322–1328. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2591

Table 6.

Age at lung cancer diagnosis (cases and relatives) by DRC status

Type of relationship DRC above the median
DRC below the median
P for median/mean
n Median Mean (SD) n Median Mean (SD)

Probands (cases) 88  59 59.5 (12.1) 131  57 58.7 (13.6) 0.77/0.66
All relatives 29  65 65.4 (9.1)   44  60 60.5 (13.6) 0.18/0.07
Case relatives   9  60 60.6 (7.5)   23  62 59.0 (15.0) 1.00/0.78
Control relatives 20  67.5 67.6 (9.1)   21  60 62.1 (12.1) 0.16/0.11
Smoking relatives 23  62 64.2 (9.0)   36  60 60.5 (12.9) 0.41/0.24
Nonsmoking relatives   6  71.5 69.8 (8.8)     8  63.5 60.3 (17.3) 0.24/0.24
Female relatives 12  71.5 67.7 (10.2)   13  60 55.4 (15.7) 0.06/0.03
Male relatives 17  62 63.7 (8.2)   31  61 62.6 (12.3) 0.94/0.73