Appendix Table 1.
Catalog of Scores Based on VAS
| Rate Your Health Today: Lung Cancer Patients | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Category | N | Mean VAS Score | SD |
|
| |||
| All | 2370* | 65.39 | 21.30 |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 1229 | 64.19 | 21.48 |
| Female | 1141 | 66.69 | 21.03 |
| Race | |||
| Caucasian | 1773 | 65.16 | 21.10 |
| Latino | 105 | 69.37 | 22.30 |
| African American | 281 | 64.67 | 21.66 |
| Asian | 80 | 71.25 | 17.40 |
| Other | 131 | 63.34 | 23.82 |
| Age | |||
| <54 | 350 | 61.46 | 22.12 |
| 55-59 | 303 | 61.81 | 22.41 |
| 60-64 | 355 | 66.47 | 20.33 |
| 65-69 | 407 | 67.72 | 20.35 |
| 70-74 | 397 | 65.95 | 21.81 |
| 75-79 | 317 | 65.65 | 21.11 |
| 80+ | 241 | 68.83 | 19.73 |
| Stage at Diagnosis | |||
| I | 743 | 71.01 | 19.99 |
| II | 230 | 67.07 | 20.28 |
| III | 641 | 63.54 | 20.95 |
| IV | 622 | 60.20 | 22.03 |
| Missing | 134 | 64.27 | 20.92 |
| Histology | |||
| NSCLC | 2005 | 66.33 | 21.08 |
| SCLC | 263 | 61.94 | 23.03 |
| Missing | 103 | 61.67 | 21.32 |
| Treatment | |||
| Surgery | 559 | 71.28 | 19.23 |
| Chemotherapy | 357 | 63.30 | 22.07 |
| Radiation | 123 | 59.54 | 22.74 |
| Surgery w/Chemotherapy | 269 | 69.15 | 19.32 |
| Surgery w/Radiation | 62 | 68.19 | 23.82 |
| Chemoradiotherapy | 670 | 60.92 | 21.68 |
| Surgery w/Chemoradiotherapy | 204 | 65.54 | 20.27 |
| No Treatment | 126 | 65.02 | 21.17 |
| Comorbidity | |||
| None | 412 | 66.99 | 21.65 |
| Mild | 735 | 66.28 | 21.40 |
| Moderate | 408 | 64.67 | 20.38 |
| Severe | 373 | 61.55 | 22.42 |
| Missing | 442 | 66.33 | 20.31 |
*
26 patients answered “refused” or “don't know.”