Table 3. Associations between the three main histologic types and other variables.
| Characteristic | Histologic type | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adenocarcinoma | Squamous cell cancer | Small cell cancer | ||
| Smoking history | ||||
| Yes | 122 | 48 | 25 | ≤ 0.001 |
| No | 92 | 8 | 5 | |
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 172 | 61 | 25 | ≤ 0.001 |
| Female | 66 | 1 | 6 | |
| Nationality | ||||
| Qatari | 38 | 19 | 7 | 0.030 |
| Non-Qatari | 200 | 43 | 24 | |
| Lung involved | ||||
| Right | 141 | 35 | 12 | 0.172 |
| Left | 73 | 25 | 14 | |
| Both | 18 | 2 | 3 | |
| Stage at diagnosis | ||||
| Stage 1 | 16 | 3 | 0 | |
| Stage 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0.002 |
| Stage 3A | 7 | 5 | 1 | |
| Stage 3B | 3 | 6 | 1 | |
| Stage 4 | 171 | 31 | 20 | |