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. 2022 Sep 23;35(6):551–558. doi: 10.37201/req/040.2022

Table 1.

Patients’ characteristics

Non antibiotic
exposure (n=97)
Antibiotic
exposure (n=43)
P-value Total (N=140)
Age
Mean (SD) 65.5 (7.35) 65.9 (9.79) 0.61 65.7 (8.15)
Median [Q1, Q3] 65.8 [60.0, 71.0] 65.1 [60.9, 73.5] 65.5 [60.2, 71.8]
Sex
Men 70 (72.2%) 27 (62.8%) 0.322 97 (69.3%)
Women 27 (27.8%) 16 (37.2%) 43 (30.7%)
Histology
Adenocarcinoma 71 (73.2%) 23 (53.5%) 0.013 94 (67.1%)
Squamous 10 (10.3%) 13 (30.2%) 23 (16.4%)
Others 16 (16.5%) 7 (16.3%) 23 (16.4%)
Stage
IIIa 1 (1.03%) 1 (2.33%) 0.622 2 (1.43%)
IIIb 7 (7.22%) 2 (4.65%) 9 (6.43%)
IV 89 (91.8%) 40 (93.0%) 129 (92.1%)
Drug
Atezolizumab 38 (39.2%) 11 (25.6%) 0.238 49 (35.0%)
Nivolumab 18 (18.6%) 12 (27.9%) 30 (21.4%)
Pembrolizumab 41 (42.3%) 20 (46.5%) 61 (43.6%)
ECOG
0 30 (30.9%) 8 (18.6%) 0.11 38 (27.1%)
1 67 (69.1%) 34 (79.1%) 101 (72.1%)
2 0 (0%) 1 (2.33%) 1 (0.714%)
Smoker
Previous 55 (56.7%) 21 (48.8%) 0.658 76 (54.3%)
Never 5 (5.15%) 3 (6.98%) 8 (5.71%)
Current 37 (38.1%) 19 (44.2%) 56 (40.0%)
PDL1 expression
PDL1 ≥50 38 (39.1%) 21 (48.8%) 0.146 59 (42.1%)
PDL1 < 50 43 (44.3%) 13 (30.2%) 56 (40.0%)

ECOG: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group