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. 2021 Oct 1;19:223. doi: 10.1186/s12916-021-02089-z

Table 1.

Patient characteristics

No. (%) Patients completed genomic profiling (n = 1166) Patients with potentially actionable alterations (n = 781) P value
Median age (range) 59 (18–92) 57 (18–92) 0.034
Sex 0.010
 Male 696 (60) 420 (54)
 Female 470 (40) 361 (46)
ECOG PS 0.613
 0 304 (26) 207 (27)
 1 799 (69) 524 (67)
 2 63 (5) 50 (6)
Histology < 0.001
 LUAD 901 (77) 681 (87)
 LUSC 108 (9) 46 (6)
 Othersa 157 (13) 54 (7)
Smoking status 0.002
 Never 684 (59) 495 (63)
 Former/current 391 (34) 207 (27)
 Unknown 91 (8) 79 (10)
Disease stage < 0.001
 III 107 (9) 32 (4)
 IV 1059 (91) 749 (96)
Number of prior therapies < 0.001
 Median (range) 0 (0–12) 1 (0–8)
 0 657 (56) 230 (29)
 1 204 (17) 274 (35)
 ≥2 305 (26) 277 (36)

Abbreviations: ECOG PS, the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status; LUAD, lung adenocarcinoma; LUSC, lung squamous carcinoma

aOthers include large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, adenosquamous carcinoma, sarcomatoid carcinoma, mucoepidermoid carcinoma, lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma, and low differentiated tumor