Table 1.

Characteristics of Patients With Stages I-IIIA Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer^a,b.

	All patients (n = 275)		Ctrl (n = 237)		aoVA (n = 38)		P
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Total number of patients	275	100.0	237	86.2	38	13.8	—
Age at diagnosis, mean (SD), years	67.6	12.3	68.0	12.7	65.3	9.4	.115
Gender
Female	118	42.8	96	40.5	22	56.4	.092
Male	158	57.2	141	59.5	17	43.6
Body mass index
<25	102	45.9	84	45.2	18	50.0	.639
25-29.9	91	41.0	76	40.9	15	41.7
30+ (obese)	29	13.1	26	14.0	3	8.30
Histology
ADC	135	48.9	114	48.1	21	53.8	.953
SQC	123	44.6	107	45.1	16	41.0
LCC	18	6.5	16	6.8	2	5.1
Smoker
Current/past	216	94.3	183	94.8	33	91.7	.720
Never	13	5.70	10	5.2	3	8.30
Cancer-directed surgeryc
No	110	39.9	93	39.2	17	43.6	.736
Yes	166	60.1	144	60.8	22	56.4
Chemotherapy
No	185	67.0	170	71.7	15	38.5	9.172e-05
Yes	91	33.0	67	28.3	24	61.5
Radiation therapy (lung)
No	250	90.6	215	90.7	35	89.7	1.0
Yes	26	9.4	22	9.3	4	10.3
Partner status
Married/life partnership	114	41.3	93	39.1	12	30.8	.211
Living alone	62	22.5	56	23.6	6	15.4
NA	100	36.2	88	37.2	12	30.8

Abbreviations: Ctrl, control group; aoVA, add-on Viscum album L, SD, standard deviation; ADC, adenocarcinoma; SQC, squamous cell carcinoma; LCC, large cell carcinoma; NA, not specified.

^aCharacteristics of patients with stages I to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer; percentages of sub-characteristics may not add up to 100% due to rounding procedures.

^bChi-square analysis for categorical variables (or Fisher’s exact test in case frequencies were ≤5); Student’s t test for age distribution.

^cIn one patient, cancer-directed surgery was not specified.