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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 30.
Published in final edited form as: Lung Cancer. 2022 Aug 1;171:115–120. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2022.07.015

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the study population from 2013 to 2021 (n=1,216)

Female Male

Not screened
(n= 622)
Screened
(n= 64)
P value Not screened
(n=480)
Screened
(n=50)
P value
Age 66.71 (10.32) 67.94 (6.17) .16 67.32 (10.83) 68.15 .54
(6.2)
Race .002 .98
White/Caucasian 587 (94.4) 59 (93.7) 443(92.5) 44 (91.7)
Black / African American 11 (1.8) 2 (3.2) 6 (1.3) 1 (2.1)
Hispanic or Latino 2 (0.3) - 2 (0.4) -
Asian 11 (1.8) - 18 (3.8) 3 (6.2)
Native American - 2 (3.2) 2 (0.4) -
Other 2 (0.3) - 2 (0.4) -
Unknown/Declined 9 (1.4) - 6 (1.25) -
Smokers 482 (80.33) 60(93.8) .022 397 (85.4) 45 (100) .01
Stage <.0001 .005
1A 237 (38.1) 45 (70.3) 131(27.3) 29 (58)
1B 72 (11.6) 3 (4.7) 69 (14.4) 7 (14.6)
2A 15 (2.4) 3 (4.7) 21 (4.4) 2 (4.2)
2B 34 (5.5) 5 (7.8) 41 (8.5) 5 (10.4)
3A 64 (10.3) 5 (7.8) 59 (12.3) 3 (6.2)
3B 17 (2.7) 1 (1.6) 16 (3.3) 1 (2.2)
4 152 (24.4) 1 (1.6) 119 (24.8) -
Extensive 21 (3.4) - 14 (2.9) 1 (2.1)
Limited 10 (1.6) 1 (1.6) 10 (2.1) -
Histologic cell type .63 .82
Adenocarcinoma 431 (70.8) 51 (81) 288 (60.8) 34 (69.4)
Squamous cells carcinoma 78 (12.8) 5 (7.9) 109 (23) 8 (16.3)
Large cell carcinoma 6 (1) 1 (1.6) 6 (1.3) -
Small cell carcinoma 31 (5.1) 1 (1.6) 24 (5.1) 1 (2.1)
Bronchioalveolar carcinoma 1 (0.2) - 1 (0.2) -
Mixed type 12 (2) - 8 (1.7) 2 (4.1)
More than one primary 4 (0.7) 1 (1.6) 4 (0.8) -
NSCLC 23 (3.8) 1 (1.6) 27 (5.7) 1 (2)
Not classified 4 (0.7) 1 (1.6) 1 (0.2) 3 (6.1)
Treatment
Surgery 374 (60.1) 57 (89.1) < .0001 265 (55.2) 40 (80) .0013
Chemotherapy 227 (36.5) 7 (11.1) < .0001 201 (41.9) 7 (14) <.0001
Radiotherapy 120 (19.3) 5 (7.9) < .0001 108 (22.5) 9 (18) .58
Deaths 111 (17.8) 6 (9.3) .12 132 (27.5) 4 (8) .005

Data are reported as No. (%) in categorical variables and mean (SD) for continuous variables; percentages may not addup to 100 due to rounding and missing values in treatment, histologic cell type, race, smoking history and stage. Age was regarded as the mean age at the moment of diagnosis.