Table 1 Demographic and clinical features of study subjects

From: Microbiome analysis of 940 lung cancers in never-smokers reveals lack of clinically relevant associations

Characteristic

16S N = 701a

RNA N = 661a

WGS N = 811a

Age At Diagnosis

64 (57, 72)

64 (57, 72)

65 (58, 72)

 Unknown

0

0

4

Sex

 Female

563 (80%)

529 (80%)

639 (79%)

 Male

138 (20%)

132 (20%)

172 (21%)

Ancestry

 African (AFR)

2 (0.3%)

0 (0%)

4 (0.5%)

 American (AMR) or Mixed

38 (5.4%)

39 (5.9%)

28 (3.5%)

 East Asian (EAS)

388 (55%)

354 (54%)

338 (42%)

 European (EUR)

272 (39%)

267 (40%)

441 (54%)

 Unknown

1

1

0

Study Site

 Connecticut, USA

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

22 (2.7%)

 Florida, USA

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

11 (1.4%)

 Hong Kong

132 (19%)

130 (20%)

113 (14%)

 IARC (Serbia, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland,

Russia)

204 (29%)

195 (30%)

190 (23%)

 Lima, Peru

4 (0.6%)

4 (0.6%)

0 (0%)

 Massachusetts, USA

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

26 (3.2%)

 Mexico City, Mexico

14 (2.0%)

16 (2.4%)

0 (0%)

 Minnesota, USA

12 (1.7%)

13 (2.0%)

13 (1.6%)

 New York, USA

12 (1.7%)

11 (1.7%)

13 (1.6%)

 Nice, France

26 (3.7%)

44 (6.7%)

53 (6.5%)

 Quebec, Canada

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

113 (14%)

 Taiwan

218 (31%)

202 (31%)

184 (23%)

 Toronto, Canada

71 (10%)

39 (5.9%)

68 (8.4%)

 Valencia, Spain

8 (1.1%)

7 (1.1%)

5 (0.6%)

Stage

 I

407 (61%)

368 (59%)

496 (64%)

 II

115 (17%)

113 (18%)

131 (17%)

 III

108 (16%)

107 (17%)

120 (15%)

 IV

38 (5.7%)

39 (6.2%)

30 (3.9%)

 Unknown

33

34

34

Histology

 Adenocarcinoma

621 (89%)

584 (88%)

695 (86%)

 Adenosquamous carcinoma

12 (1.7%)

9 (1.4%)

11 (1.4%)

 Carcinoid tumor

23 (3.3%)

23 (3.5%)

58 (7.2%)

 Squamous cell carcinoma

36 (5.1%)

36 (5.4%)

34 (4.2%)

 Other

9 (1.3%)

9 (1.4%)

13 (1.6%)

  1. aMedian (Q1, Q3); n (%)