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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2019 Dec 30;214(4):766–774. doi: 10.2214/AJR.19.21982

Table 3.

Sites of metastasis.



Driver alteration, n(%)
P-value
Metastatic Site All (N=333) ALK+ (N=119) EGFR+ (N=116) EGFR-/ALK- (N=98) ALK+ vs. EGFR+ ALK+ vs/ EGFR-/ALK-

Thoracic Node
 No 32 (10%) 8 (7%) 20 (17%) 4 (4%) 0.02 0.55
 Yes 301 (90%) 111 (93%) 96 (83%) 94 (96%)
Intrathoracic
 No 76 (23%) 34 (29%) 28 (24%) 14 (14%) 0.46 0.01
 Yes 257 (77%) 85 (71%) 88 (76%) 84 (86%)
Lung
 No 166 (50%) 96 (81%) 39 (34%) 31 (32%) <0.01 <0.01
 Yes 167 (50%) 23 (19%) 77 (66%) 67 (68%)
Pleural mets
 No 192 (58%) 64 (54%) 85 (73%) 43 (44%) <0.01 0.17
 Yes 141 (42%) 55 (46%) 31 (27%) 55 (56%)
Lymphangitic carcinomatosis
 No 263 (79%) 75 (63%) 102 (88%) 86 (88%) <0.01 <0.01
 Yes 70 (21%) 44 (37%) 14 (12%) 12 (12%)
Pericardium
 No 329 (99%) 116 (97%) 116 (100%) 97 (99%) 0.25 0.63
 Yes 4 (1%) 3 (3%) 0 (0%) 1 (1%)
Extra-thoracic
 No 95 (29%) 33 (28%) 32 (28%) 30 (31%) >0.99 0.66
 Yes 238 (71%) 86 (72%) 84 (72%) 68 (69%)
Intra-abdominal
 No 233 (70%) 87 (73%) 81 (70%) 65 (66%) 0.66 0.30
 Yes 100 (30%) 32 (27%) 35 (30%) 33 (34%)
Adrenal
 No 278 (83%) 111 (93%) 100 (86%) 67 (68%) 0.09 <0.01
 Yes 55 (17%) 8 (7%) 16 (14%) 31 (32%)
Liver
 No 277 (83%) 93 (78%) 92 (79%) 92 (94%) 0.87 <0.01
 Yes 56 (17%) 26 (22%) 24 (21%) 6 (6%)
Spleen
 No 328 (98%) 114 (96%) 116 (100%) 98 (100%) 0.06 0.07
 Yes 5 (2%) 5 (4%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Bone
 No 195 (59%) 65 (55%) 67 (58%) 63 (64%) 0.69 0.17
 Yes 138 (41%) 54 (45%) 49 (42%) 35 (36%)
Bone type
 None 198 (59%) 65 (55%) 68 (59%) 65 (66%) <0.01 <0.01
 Lytic 93 (28%) 26 (22%) 40 (34%) 27 (28%)
 Sclerotic 42 (13%) 28 (24%) 8 (7%) 6 (6%)
Brain
 No 227 (68%) 90 (76%) 69 (59%) 68 (69%) 0.01 0.36
 Yes 106 (32%) 29 (24%) 47 (41%) 30 (31%)
Distant lymph node
 No 298 (89%) 95 (80%) 114 (98%) 89 (91%) <0.01 0.04
 Yes 35 (11%) 24 (20%) 2 (2%) 9 (9%)
Soft tissue
 No 316 (95%) 112 (94%) 116 (100%) 88 (90%) 0.01 0.31
 Yes 17 (5%) 7 (6%) 0 (0%) 10 (10%)