Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of patient cohort

	Age At Diagnosis	gender	grading	TNM-classification
Patient 1	42	f	I	T1a, Nx, L0,V0, R0, M0
Patient 2	48	f	II-III	n.a.
Patient 3	48	f	II	T2a, N2(10/12), Mx, L1, R1
Patient 4	54	f	I-II	T2b, N2 (N1 3/4; N2 3/15) M1a, R0
Patient 5	54	f	II-III	T2b, N1(7/7 N2), Mx, L1, V1, n0
Patient 6	58	f	II	T3, L0, V0, Pn0, Rx, M1b
Patient 7	59	m	II	T2a, N0, R0, M0
Patient 8	60	m	II	T4, N2 (N1 2/6, N2 17/34), L1, V0, Pn0, Mx, R0
Patient 9	59	f	III	T2a, N2 (N1 2/5, N2 2/11), L0, V1, Pn0, Mx, R0
Patient 10	60	m	II	T2, N0 (0/7), Mx, L0, V0, Pn0, R0
Patient 11	60	m	III	T2a, N2 (N1 2/9; N2 3/5), Mx, L1, V0, R0
Patient 12	62	m	I	T1a, N1 (N1 8/11; 0/2), Mx, L0, V0, R0
Patient 13	64	m	II	T4, V0, L0, N0 (N1 0/13; N2 0/15), Mx, R0
Patient 14	67	m	II	T1b, V0, L0, N0 (0/2), Mx, R0
Patient 15	66	m	I-II	T1b, V0, L0, N1 (hilar 1/4; N1 0/13; N2 0/3) Mx, R0
Patient 16	71	m	II	T1b, N2 (N1 3/7; N2 6/23), Mx, L1, V0, R0
Patient 17	74	f	II	T1b, N2, (N1 4/6; N2 2/3), Mx, R0, L0, V1, Pn0
Patient 18	75	f	II	T3, N0 (0/18), Mx, L0, V0, Pn0, R1
Patient 19	74	f	I	T2a, N2 (7/28), L0, V0, R0, M0
Patient 20	77	f	III	T1b, M0, R0, M0
Patient 21	78	f	I-II	T2, Nx, Mx, L0, V1, Pn0, Rx
Patient 22	79	f	II	n.a.