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Table 4 Patient characteristics

From: The blood-borne miRNA signature of lung cancer patients is independent of histology but influenced by metastases

 

Adenocarcinoma

Squamous cell lung cancer

SCLC

Χ2p-value

number of samples

20

20

20

 

mean age, years (SD)

63.5 (±10.15)

65 (±8.12)

63 (±10.15)

 

range

    

gender, n

   

0.911

female

5

5

4

 

male

15

15

16

 

smoking, n

   

0.0001989

never-smoker

12

2

2

 

current or former smoker

8

18

18

 

Staging, n

   

0.02329

I-II

7

2

1

 

III-IV

12

17

18

 

unknown

1

1

1

 

metastases, n

   

0.6095

M0

9

10

7

 

M1a / M1b

10

9

12

 
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