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. 2022 Mar 9;10(3):e004157. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2021-004157

Table 1.

Clinical characteristics and treatments

Overall Vaccinees Non-vaccinees P value
Characteristics
Number of patients 2048 1518 530
Median age, years 59.0 (54.0–66.0) 59.0 (54.0–66.0) 59 (52.0–66.0) 0.821
Gender 0.579
Male 1483 (72.4) 1079 (71.1) 404 (76.2)
Female 565 (27.6) 439 (28.9) 126 (23.8)
ECOG <0.001
<2 1428 (69.7) 1120 (73.8) 308 (58.1)
≥2 620 (30.3) 398 (26.2) 222 (41.9)
History of COVID-19 infection 13 (0.6) 7 (0.5) 4 (0.8) 0.112
Number of vaccination shots 2844
1 shot 288 (19.0)
2 shots 1134 (74.7)
3 shots 96 (6.3)
Adverse effect of vaccination 483 (31.8)
Muscle pain 307 (20.2)
Fever 168 (11.1)
Pneumonia 8 (0.5)
Comorbidities 462 (22.6) 277 (18.2) 185 (34.9) <0.001
Hypertension 208 (10.2) 119 (7.8) 89 (16.8)
Diabetes 63 (3.1) 45 (3.0) 18 (3.4)
Heart disease 44 (2.1) 31 (2.0) 13 (2.5)
Cerebral infarction 33 (1.6) 22 (1.4) 11 (2.1)
Others 114 (5.6) 60 (6.6) 54 (10.2)
Cancer types
Lung 722 (35.3) 562 (37.0) 160 (30.2) 0.041
Liver 469 (22.9) 337 (22.2) 132 (24.9) 0.208
Intestinal tract 218 (10.6) 189 (12.5) 29 (5.5) <0.001
Urinary system 84 (4.1) 62 (4.1) 22 (4.2) 1.000
Nasopharyngeal 76 (3.7) 58 (3.8) 18 (3.4) 0.790
Others 479 (23.4) 310 (20.4) 169 (31.9) <0.001
Cancer stages 0.815
Non-metastasis stage 24 (1.2) 19 (1.3) 5 (0.9)
Metastasis stage 2024 (98.8) 1499 (98.7) 525 (99.1)
Treatments
Therapy
Camrelizumab (Cam) 903 (44.1) 670 (44.1) 233 (44.0) 0.960
Cam+chemotherapy 908 (44.3) 711 (46.8) 197 (37.2) <0.001
Cam+targeted therapy 211 (10.3) 120 (7.9) 91 (17.2) <0.001
Cam+radiotherapy 26 (1.3) 17 (1.1) 9 (1.7) 0.366
Immune-related adverse events 719 (35.1) 585 (38.5) 134 (25.3)
≤2 645 (31.5) 540 (35.6) 105 (19.8) <0.001
≥3 74 (3.6) 45 (3.0) 29 (5.5) 0.007
Treatment efficacy
Complete remission 118 (5.8) 96 (6.3) 22 (4.2) 0.066
Partial remission 438 (21.4) 307 (20.2) 131 (24.7) 0.031
Stable disease 895 (43.7) 693 (45.7) 202 (38.1) 0.003
Progression disease 597 (29.2) 422 (27.8) 175 (33.0) 0.026
Overall response rate 556 (27.1) 403 (38.0) 153 (28.9) 0.308
Disease control rate 1451 (70.8) 1096 (72.2) 355 (67.0) 0.026
Treatment pause 221 (10.8) 113 (7.4) 108 (20.4) <0.001

ECOG, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group.