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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 3.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Aug 30;25(23):7113–7125. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-1700

Table 1.

Clinicopathologic and genomic comparison of IPMs versus SPLCs for paired adenocarcinomas

IPM SPLCs P
Patient characteristics N total = 17 patients N total = 37 patients
No. of analyzed tumors per patient
 Two tumors 14 (82%) 32 (86%) 0.70
 Three tumors 3 (18%) 5 (14%)
Smoking history
 Current/former 10 (59%) 32 (86%) 0.035
 Never 7 (41%) 5 (14%)
Pack years
 Mean (range) 14 (0–50) 34 (0–118) 0.007
 Median 7.5 30
Background multiple (>1) AAH 0 11 (30%) 0.011
Staging parameters
 Tumor size mean (range); cm 2.5 (0.6–9.7) 2.0 (0.5–9.0) 0.17
 pN1 or pN2 at time of surgery 8 (47%) 14 (38%) 0.56
 pM1b (distant metastasis) at time of surgery 0 0 1.00
Tumor pair comparisons N total = 23 tumor pairs N total = 47 tumor pairs
Time course
 Synchronous 9 (39%) 40 (85%) 0.0002
 Metachronous 14 (61%) 7 (15%)
Latency for metachronous tumors
 Mean (range); years 3.6 (0.4–7.6) 1.6 (0.6–2.7) 0.038
Intrapulmonary relationship
 Ipsilateral same lobe 6 (26%) 20 (43%) 0.37
 Ipsilateral other lobe 9 (39%) 16 (34%)
 Contralateral lobe 8 (35%) 11 (23%)
Histologic pattern in any amount in at least one of the paired tumors
 - Lepidic 17 (74%) 41 (87%) 0.19
 - Acinar 22 (96%) 47 (100%) 0.33
 - Papillary 13 (57%) 23 (49%) 0.62
 - Micropapillary 21 (91%) 34 (72%) 0.12
 - Solid 8 (35%) 20 (43%) 0.61
 - Either micropapillary or solid 23 (100%) 39 (83%) 0.046
Lepidic in both tumors 14 (61%) 25 (53%) 0.61
Micropapillary in both tumors 15 (65%) 15 (32%) 0.01
Individual tumor comparisons N total = 17 unique tumors N total = 79 unique tumors
Driver alterations
EGFR mutations 4 (23%) 13 (16%) 0.49
ALK fusion 1 (6%) 1 (1%) 0.32
ROS1 fusion 1 (6%) 1 (1%) 0.32
MET exon 14 mutations 4 (23%) 2 (3%) 0.0085
BRAF V600E mutation 1 (6%) 0 0.18
KRAS mutations 5 (30%) 43 (54%) 0.11
 Other driver alterations 0 9 (11%) 0.35
 Unknown driver 1 (6%) 10 (13%) 0.68
 Non-KRAS drivers (EGFR, ALK, ROS1, MET, and BRAF) 11 (65%) 17 (22%) 0.0009
TMB
 Mean (range); mt/Mb 4.5 (0.9–15.8) 7.0 (0–41.2) 0.025

Abbreviation: TMB, tumor mutation burden.