Table 1 Characteristics of the study population.

From: KIR-HLA gene diversities and susceptibility to lung cancer

Characteristics

Lung cancer patients (n = 232)

Healthy controls (n = 448)

Mean age ± SD

64.4 ± 11.1

58.13 ± 12.66

Gender

 Female

34 (14.7%)

150 (33.5%)

 Male

198 (85.3%)

298 (66.5%)

Smoking status

 Smoker

51 (21.98%)

64 (14.3%)

 Non-smoker

0 (0.0%)

3 (0.7%)

 Unknown

181 (78.02%)

381 (85.0%)

Lung cancer subtypes

 SCLC

53 (22.8%)

 

 NSCLC

179 (77.2%)

 

  Squamous cell carcinoma

144 (62.1%)

 

  Adenocarcinoma

35 (15.1%)