Table 1 Overall patient characteristics.

From: The different overall survival between single-agent EGFR-TKI treatment and with bevacizumab in non-small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastasis

 

Total (%)

N = 310

TKI plus bevacizumab (%)

N = 43

TKI alone (%)

N = 267

p value

Age (mean ± SD)

 

60.4 ± 9.8

71.2 ± 12.1

 < 0.001

Age ≥ 65

208 (67.1)

15 (34.9)

193 (72.3)

 < 0.001

ECOGPS 0–1

232 (74.8)

38 (88.4)

194 (72.7)

0.036

Gender

Male

105 (33.9)

14 (32.6)

237 (34.1)

1.000

Current/ex-smoker

73 (23.5)

11 (25.6)

62 (23.2)

0.703

Histology

Adenocarcinoma

307 (99.0)

43 (100.0)

264 (98.9)

1.000

Others

3 (1.0)

0

3 (1.1)

 

EGFR mutation

L858R

185 (59.7)

23 (53.5)

162 (60.7)

0.405

19deletion

125 (40.3)

20 (46.5)

105 (39.3)

 

Disease stage

III

18 (5.6)

1 (2.3)

17 (6.4)

0.485

IV

292 (94.4)

42 (97.7)

250 (93.6)

 

Site of metastasis

Brain

137 (44.2)

24 (55.8)

113 (42.3)

0.140

Liver

40 (12.6)

7 (16.3)

33 (12.4)

0.469

EGFR TKI administered

Gefitinib

124 (40.0)

4 (9.3)

120 (44.9)

 < 0.001

Erlotinib

186 (60.0)

39 (90.7)

147 (55.1)