Table 1 The clinical characteristics of the 100 patients and 60 cases of healthy volunteers.

From: The relationship between the preoperative plasma level of HIF-1α and clinic pathological features, prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer

clinical characteristics

Case of patients(%)

healthy volunteer

X2

P

Age

 Median

59

57

 

0.432

 Range

36–84

31–82

  

Gender

 Male

80(80%)

44(73%)

0.361

0.665

 Female

20(20%)

16(27%)

  

Pathological type

 Adenocarcinoma

40(40%)

   

 Squamous cell carcinomas

50(50%)

   

 Others

10(10%)

   

Tumor differentiation grade

 Poorly differentiated

44(44%)

   

 Middle differentiated

55(55%)

   

 High differentiated

1(1%)

   

pTNM stage

 Ia stage

20(20%)

   

 Ib stage

23(23%)

   

 IIa stage

19(19%)

   

 IIb stage

8(8%)

   

 IIIa stage

30(30%)

   

N stage

 N0

64(64%)

   

 N1

9(9%)

   

 N2

27(27%)

   

Smoking

 Yes

59(59%)

   

 No

41(41%)