Table 2.
Impact of smoking history to prevalence and spectrum of EGFR mutation
| Characteristics | EGFR genotypes | *p-value | EGFR mutation types | *p-value | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild types | Mutants | Common | Uncommon | Mix | ||||||||||
| Smoking history | ||||||||||||||
| Ever smokers | 89 | 38 | 43% | 51 | 57% | 0.0465 | 33 | 65% | 8 | 16% | 10 | 20% | 0.0632 | |
| Never smokers | 51 | 13 | 25% | 38 | 75% | 27 | 71% | 9 | 24% | 2 | 5% | |||
| Unknown | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Age 55 years old and younger | ||||||||||||||
| Ever smokers | 51 | 24 | 47% | 27 | 53% | 0.0343 | 15 | 56% | 7 | 26% | 5 | 19% | 0.139 | |
| Never smokers | 21 | 4 | 19% | 17 | 81% | 11 | 65% | 6 | 35% | 0 | 0% | |||
| Age older than 55 years old | ||||||||||||||
| Ever smokers | 38 | 14 | 37% | 24 | 63% | 0.6127 | 18 | 75% | 1 | 4% | 5 | 21% | 0.421 | |
| Never smokers | 30 | 9 | 30% | 21 | 70% | 16 | 76% | 3 | 14% | 2 | 10% | |||
| Male | ||||||||||||||
| Ever smokers | 84 | 36 | 43% | 48 | 57% | 0.06 | 30 | 63% | 8 | 17% | 10 | 21% | 0.429 | |
| Never smokers | 17 | 3 | 18% | 14 | 82% | 10 | 71% | 3 | 21% | 1 | 7% | |||
| Female | ||||||||||||||
| Ever smokers | 5 | 2 | 40% | 3 | 60% | 0.63 | 3 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 1 | |
| Never smokers | 34 | 10 | 29% | 24 | 71% | 17 | 71% | 6 | 25% | 1 | 4% | |||
Notes: * p-value <0.05 were statistically significant.