Table 1 Clinicopathological characteristics of patients enrolled in this study.
Variable | Training cohort | p | Validation cohort | p | p | ||
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T790M-positive (N = 90) | T790M-negative (N = 102) | T790M-positive (N = 38) | T790M-negative (N = 44) | ||||
Age (y, mean ± SD) | 65.30 ± 9.90 | 64.16 ± 10.72 | 0.45 | 65.26 ± 10.81 | 66.11 ± 10.98 | 0.73 | 0.46 |
Sex, n (%) | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.01 | ||||
Male | 52 (57.78) | 43 (42.16) | 26 (68.42) | 19 (43.18) | |||
Female | 38 (42.22) | 59 (57.84) | 12 (31.58) | 25 (56.82) | |||
Smoking Status, n (%) | 0.66 | 0.82 | 0.06 | ||||
Smoker | 47 (52.22) | 49 (48.04) | 20 (52.63) | 21 (47.73) | |||
Never smoker | 43 (47.78) | 53 (51.96) | 18 (47.37) | 23 (52.27) | |||
Performance status (at biopsy) | 0.55 | 0.65 | 0.05 | ||||
0–1 | 57 (63.33) | 69 (67.65) | 24 (63.16) | 30 (68.18) | |||
≥ 2 | 33 (36.67) | 33 (32.35) | 14 (36.84) | 14 (31.82) | |||
Pathological type | 0.69 | 0.64 | 0.94 | ||||
Adenocarcinoma | 85 (94.45) | 96 (94.12) | 36 (94.74) | 41 (93.18) | |||
Adenosquamous carcinoma | 3 (3.33) | 5 (4.90) | 2 (5.26) | 2 (4.55) | |||
Squamous carcinoma | 2 (2.22) | 1 (0.98) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (2.27) | |||
Stage, n (%) | 0.72 | 0.79 | 0.87 | ||||
III | 20 (22.22) | 20 (19.61) | 8 (21.05) | 8 (18.18) | |||
IV | 70 (77.78) | 82 (80.39) | 30 (76.95) | 36 (81.82) | |||
EGFR mutation | 0.30 | 0.50 | 0.89 | ||||
Exon 19 deletion | 53 (58.89) | 68 (66.67) | 22 (57.89) | 29 (65.91) | |||
Exon 21 L858R | 37 (41.11) | 34 (33.33) | 16 (42.11) | 15 (34.09) | |||
Serum level of tumor marker (mean ± SD) | |||||||
CEA | 68.33 ± 85.64 | 59.56 ± 84.91 | 0.48 | 43.91 ± 42.51 | 48.66 ± 63.23 | 0.69 | 0.09 |
NSE | 18.08 ± 19.38 | 15.11 ± 6.20 | 0.14 | 20.33 ± 23.13 | 21.62 ± 43.28 | 0.87 | 0.13 |
CYFRA 21–1 | 5.35 ± 6.69 | 3.25 ± 3.43 | 0.01 | 4.19 ± 3.90 | 5.20 ± 5.78 | 0.36 | 0.47 |
SCC | 0.93 ± 0.88 | 0.96 ± 1.02 | 0.82 | 0.73 ± 0.42 | 0.72 ± 0.47 | 0.93 | 0.04 |
Pro-GRP | 47.68 ± 51.69 | 42.69 ± 44.04 | 0.47 | 51.15 ± 68.95 | 38.81 ± 13.09 | 0.23 | 0.90 |
Initial EGFR-TKI response | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.04 | ||||
CR or PR | 65 (72.22) | 57 (55.88) | 33 (86.84) | 26 (59.09) | |||
SD or PD | 25 (27.78) | 45 (44.12) | 5 (13.16) | 18 (40.91) |