Table 1.
Patient Characteristics
| Age | |
| Median | 62.0 |
| Range | 41–82 |
| Gender, n (%) | |
| Female | 17 (43.6) |
| Male | 22 (56.4) |
| Performance status, n (%) | |
| 0 | 17 (43.6) |
| 1 | 22 (56.4) |
| Stage, n (%) | |
| IIIB | 5 (12.8) |
| IV | 34 (87.2) |
| Brain metastases, n (%) | |
| No | 35 (89.7) |
| Yes | 4 (10.3) |
| Histology, n (%) | |
| Squamous | 1 (2.6)a |
| Nonsquamous | 38 (97.4) |
| Nonsquamous detail, n (%) | |
| Adenocarcinoma | 32 (82.0) |
| Large cell | 2 (5.1) |
| Bronchioloalveolar | 1 (2.6) |
| NSCLC, NOS | 3 (7.7) |
Abbreviation: NSCLC, NOS = non–small-cell lung cancer, not otherwise specified.
a
The study allowed squamous cell if the primary tumor had been resected.