Table 1 Characteristics of patients with or without tumor recurrence after resection for clinical stage I or II lung adenocarcinoma.

From: The role of Thyroid Transcription Factor-1 and Tumor differentiation in Resected Lung Adenocarcinoma

 

No relapse (n = 426)

Relapse (n = 94)

p-valuea

Sex

  Male

172

44

0.298

  Female

254

50

 

Differentiation

  Good

224

20

 < 0.001

  Moderate

160

45

 

  Poor

42

29

 

Location

  Central

202

58

0.016

  Peripheral

224

36

 

Smoking

  Yes

75

26

0.079

  No

321

63

 

  Ex-smoker

30

5

 

Survival

  Yes

414

42

<0.001

  No

12

52

 

LVSI

  Absent

397

77

0.002

  Present

29

17

 

VPI

  Absent

407

91

0.779

  Present

19

3

 

Operation

  Lobectomy

335

82

0.031

  Wedge

64

12

 

  Segmentectomy

27

0

 

 Status of N1 node

  

0.004

  Negative

382

74

 

  Positive

42

20

 

 Status of N2 node

  

<0.001

  Negative

399

73

 

  Positive

25

21

 

Stage

  0

4

0

<0.001

  I

265

34

 

  II

116

29

 

  III

38

29

 

  IV

3

2

 
  1. aStatistically significant p-values are shown in bold. LVSI, lymphovascular space invasion; VPI, visceral pleural invasion.
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