Table 1.
Characteristics of subjects with non-small cell lung cancer in the analytic cohort within the Lung Cancer Clinical Cohort at Montefiore Medical Center
| All subjectsa (n=2395) | Non-Hispanic Whites (n=871) | Hispanics/Latinos (n=583) | Non-Hispanic Blacks (n=894) | Non-Hispanic Asians (n=47) | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) or Median (IQR) | ||||||
| Age at diagnosis (years) | 67.5 (11.4) | 70.0 (11.1) | 66.8 (11.2) | 65.5 (11.3) | 66.7 (11.9) | <0.0001 |
| Socioeconomic statusbc | −1.8 (−5.5, −0.5) | −0.6 (−1.4, −0.5) | −3.8 (−6.6, −1.7) | −2.5 (−6.2, −1.1) | −1.1 (−3.3, 0.0) | 0.0001 |
| N (%) | ||||||
| Sex | ||||||
| Female | 1200 (50) | 421 (48) | 282 (48) | 475 (53) | 22 (47) | 0.15 |
| Male | 1195 (50) | 450 (52) | 301 (52) | 419 (47) | 25 (53) | |
| Stage | 0.001 | |||||
| Local (1 or 2) | 521 (22) | 229 (26) | 123 (21) | 162 (18) | 7 (15) | |
| Regional (3) | 573 (24) | 188 (22) | 140 (24) | 237 (27) | 8 (17) | |
| Distant (4) | 893 (37) | 311 (36) | 210 (36) | 353 (39) | 19 (40) | |
| Other/unstaged | 408 (17) | 143 (16) | 110 (19) | 142 (16) | 13 (28) | |
| Histology | 0.50 | |||||
| Adenocarcinoma | 1334 (56) | 490 (56) | 332 (57) | 482 (54) | 30 (64) | |
| Squamous cell carcinoma | 602 (25) | 213 (24) | 153 (26) | 227 (25) | 9 (19) | |
| Treatmentd | ||||||
| Surgery | 880 (37) | 325 (38) | 234 (40) | 303 (34) | 18 (40) | 0.13 |
| Radiation | 1046 (44) | 340 (40) | 265 (46) | 421 (48) | 20 (44) | 0.008 |
| Chemotherapy | 1141 (48) | 372 (44) | 291 (50) | 450 (51) | 28 (62) | 0.002 |
| Palliative Care | 436 (19) | 126 (15) | 120 (21) | 179 (20) | 11 (24) | 0.005 |
| Smoking Statuse | <0.001 | |||||
| Never-smoker | 348 (15) | 113 (13) | 89 (16) | 124(14) | 22 (52) | |
| Ever-smoker | 1975 (85) | 725 (87) | 484 (84) | 746 (86) | 20 (48) | |
| Languagef | <0.001 | |||||
| English | 2047 (88) | 1213 (96) | 441 (57) | 1205 (99) | 37 (64) | |
| Spanish | 236 (10) | 3 (<1) | 337 (43) | 5 (<1) | 0 | |
| Other | 41 (2) | 54 (4) | 1 (<1) | 3 (<1) | 21 (36) | |
| Marital Statusg | <0.001 | |||||
| Married | 866 (41) | 405 (54) | 183 (36) | 249 (30) | 29 (66) | |
| Not married | 1243 (59) | 346 (46) | 325 (64) | 557 (69) | 15 (34) | |
| Diagnosis Year | <0.001 | |||||
| 2004–2008 | 636 (27) | 287 (33) | 103 (18) | 235 (26) | 11 (23) | |
| 2009–2013 | 1090 (46) | 378 (43) | 281 (48) | 411 (46) | 20 (43) | |
| 2014–2017 | 669 (28) | 206 (24) | 199 (34) | 248 (28) | 16 (34) | |
Race/ethnicity data missing for 1,155 subjects with NSCLC; 4 subjects with NSCLC who were Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander or Non-Hispanic Native American/Alaskan Native excluded due to low sample size
Summary score of several variables calculated using census block data (See Online Resource 1)
Data missing for 113 subjects (5% of the sample)
For all treatment variables, data was missing for 38 subjects (2%)
Data missing for 72 subjects (3%)
Data missing for 62 subjects (3%)
Married/significant other versus single/divorced/separated/widowed/other; data missing for 286 subjects (12%)