Skip to main content
. 2020 Jul;12(7):3488–3499. doi: 10.21037/jtd-20-402

Table 2. Patient sociodemographic and medical characteristics by extent of surgery.

Patient characteristics Sublobar resection (n=127) Lobectomy (n=74) Total (N=201) P value
Age (year)
   Median (IQR) 70 (12) 66 (12.5) 69 (13) 0.14
Sex (%)
   Female 83 (65.4) 50 (67.6) 133 (66.2) 0.75
   Male 44 (34.6) 24 (32.4) 68 (33.8)
Race (%)
   Asian 11 (8.7) 10 (13.5) 21 (10.4) 0.45
   Black/African American 21 (16.5) 11 (14.9) 32 (15.9)
   Other 18 (14.2) 6 (8.1) 24 (11.9)
   White Non-Hispanic 77 (60.6) 47 (63.5) 124 (61.7)
College degree (%)
   Yes 66 (54.5) 37 (55.2) 103 (54.8) 0.93
BMI ≥30 kg/m2 (%)
   Yes 33 (27.7) 19 (27.9) 52 (27.8) 0.98
BMI (kg/m2)
   Median (IQR) 26.4 (7.35) 25.4 (7.75) 25.8 (7.4) 0.51
Pack-years
   Median (IQR) 15 (34.925) 15 (43) 15 (37.6) 0.92
Smoking status (%)
   Current smoker 13 (10.3) 5 (6.8) 18 (9.0) 0.27
   Former smoker 83 (65.9) 44 (59.5) 127 (63.5)
   Never smoker 30 (23.8) 25 (33.8) 55 (27.5)
Comorbidity ordinal score
   Median (IQR) 2 (2) 2 (3) 2 (2) 0.13
Time from baseline QoL to surgery date (months)
   Median (IQR) 0.6 (0.7) 0.4 (0.7) 0.5 (0.7) 0.46
Social support (MOS index)
   Median (IQR) 96.8 (14.0) 97.4 (14.2) 96.8 (13.9) 0.85
Tumor consistency on pre-surgical CT (%)
   Solid 92 (72.4) 59 (79.7) 151 (75.1) 0.36
   Part-solid 25 (19.7) 14 (18.9) 39 (19.4)
   Nonsolid 10 (7.9) 1 (1.4) 11 (5.5)
Post-operative pathology
Histology
   Adenocarcinoma 102 (80.3) 60 (81.1) 162 (80.6) 0.48
   Other 11 (8.7) 9 (12.2) 20 (10.0)
   Squamous cell 14 (11.0) 5 (6.8) 19 (9.5)
Max. pathologic tumor diameter (mm)
   Median (IQR) 15 (7.5) 20 (9.75) 15 (8.0) <0.001