Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Preoperative chemotherapy and radiotherapy concomitant to cetuximab in resectable stage IIIB NSCLC: a multicentre phase 2 trial (SAKK 16/08)

Variable

Overall (N = 69)

n

(%)

Age (years)—median (min–max)

69

(36–73)

Sex

  Female

16

(23.2%)

  Male

53

(76.8%)

Tumour IIIb stage

 T1 N3 M0

5

(7.2%)

  T2 N3 M0

18

(26.1%)

  T3 N3 M0

4

(5.8%)

  T4 N0 M0

18

(26.1%)

  T4 N1 M0

2

(2.9%)

  T4 N2 M0

17

(24.6%)

  T4 N3 M0

5

(7.2%)

Lymph-node staging by mediastinoscopy

  No

1

(1.4%)

  Yes

57

(82.6%)

  Not available

11

(15.9%)

Patient considered operable

  Yes

69

(100.0%)

WHO PS at entry

  0

46

(66.7%)

  1

23

(33.3%)

Intervention planned at Tumour-board before inclusion

  Bilobectomy

11

(15.9%)

  Lobectomy

36

(52.2%)

  Pneumonectomy

15

(21.7%)

  Missing

7

(10.1%)

Histology

  Adeno-NSCLC

34

(49.3%)

 Large-cell NSCLC

1

(1.5%)

  Poorly differentiated NSCLC

5

(7.2%)

  Squamous NSCLC

28

(40.6%)

 Missinga

1

(1.5%)

 Pack-years of smoking—median (min–max)

40

(3–150)

  1. aHistology of tumour could not be defined in pathology report as material was not sufficient for evaluation