Table 1

Patient characteristics, tumour stage and treatment

CarcinoidNSCLC
N1341161 618
Patient characteristics
 Age—mean (SD)62 (15)72 (11)
 Female62%44%
 Performance status 0–191.4%52.6%
 FEV1—mean (SD)2.27 (0.83)1.71 (0.72)
Stage
 Localised65.7%20.4%
 Regional6.3%22.3%
 Metastatic8.7%43.1%
 Unknown19.2%14.2%
Treatment
 Surgery76.9%14.2%
 Chemotherapy6.2%25.7%
 Radiotherapy3.6%28.4%
 No treatment recorded13.3%31.7%
  • FEV1, forced expiratory volume in 1 s; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer.