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Table 1 Demographic and clinical data of lung cancer patients and cancer-free controls

From: Evaluation of lung flute in sputum samples for molecular analysis of lung cancer

 

Lung cancer patients

%

Cancer-free controls

%

Parameter

Mean

 

Mean

 

Total no.

39

 

42

 

Age, years

65.6

 

62.3

 
 

7.8

 

8.4

 

Gender

    

  Men

23

58.9

26

60.5

  Women

16

41.1

16

39.5

Race

    

  White American

29

74.4

31

73.8

  African American

10

25.6

11

26.2

Smoking, pack-years

48.5

 

46.7

 
 

35.3

 

32.8

 

Histology

    

  Adenocarcinoma

21

53.9

  

  Squamous cell carcinoma

18

46.1

  

All are stage I NSCLC

    
  1. Abbreviation: NSCLC non-small cell lung cancer.