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Table 1 Patient Demographic and Clinical Characteristics

From: Accurate detection of early-stage lung cancer using a panel of circulating cell-free DNA methylation biomarkers

Characteristics

Patients, No. (%)

Discovery cohort

Validation cohort

Plasma cohort

Overall

Total, n

N = 96

 N = 81

 N = 106

 N = 283

Age-year

    

 Mean (SD)

54.7 (11.0)

54.2 (9.48)

54.6 (10.1)

54.5 (10.2)

 Median [Min, Max]

56.0 [28.0, 81.0]

53.0 [33.0, 79.0]

55.0 [21.0, 83.0]

55.0 [21.0, 83.0]

Gender

    

 Male

46 (47.9)

38 (46.9)

65 (61.3)

149 (52.7)

 Female

50 (52.1)

43 (53.1)

41 (38.7)

134 (47.3)

Smoking_history

    

 Never smoker

75 (78.1)

59 (72.8)

68 (64.2)

202 (71.4)

 Smoker

21 (21.9)

22 (27.2)

38 (35.8)

81 (28.6)

Family history of lung cancer

    

 No

88 (91.7)

77 (95.1)

103 (97.2)

268 (94.7)

 Yes

8 (8.3)

4 (4.9)

3 (2.8)

15 (5.3)

Histopathology

    

 Lung cancer

80 (83.3)

64 (79.0)

26 (24.5)

170 (60.1)

 Lung adenocarcinoma

78 (81.3)

63 (77.8)

23 (21.7)

164 (58.0)

 Squamous cell carcinoma

1 (1.0)

0 (0)

3 (2.8)

4 (1.4)

 Large cell carcinoma

1 (1.0)

1 (1.2)

0 (0)

2 (0.7)

Benign disease

16 (16.7)

17 (21.0)

30 (28.3)

63 (22.3)

 Inflammation

6 (6.3)

5 (6.2)

16 (15.1)

27 (9.5)

 Pulmonary fibrosis

3 (3.1)

5 (6.2)

5 (4.7)

13 (4.6)

 Hamartoma

0 (0)

2 (2.5)

4 (3.8)

6 (2.1)

 Pulmonary sclerosing pneumocytoma

1 (1.0)

1 (1.2)

4 (3.8)

6 (2.1)

 Tuberculosis

3 (3.1)

1 (1.2)

0 (0)

4 (1.4)

 Fungal infection

2 (2.1)

2 (2.5)

1 (0.9)

5 (1.8)

 Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia

1 (1.0)

1 (1.2)

0 (0)

2 (0.7)

 Healthy control

0 (0)

0 (0)

50 (47.2)

50 (17.7)

Stage

    

 0

1 (1.3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

1 (0.6)

 I

76 (95.0)

63 (98.4)

10 (38.5)

149 (87.6)

 II

1 (1.3)

1 (1.6)

8 (30.8)

10 (5.9)

 III

2 (2.5)

0 (0)

4 (15.4)

6 (3.5)

 IV

0 (0)

0 (0)

4 (15.4)

4 (2.4)