Clinical Study

Efficacy of Second-Line Pemetrexed-Carboplatin in EGFR-Activating Mutation-Positive NSCLC: Does Exon 19 Deletion Differ from Exon 21 Mutation?

Table 4

Details of multivariate analysis for overall survival.

VariableHazard ratio value on Cox regression analysis

>100 (0.0–NA)0.980

ECOG PS0.321 (0.078–1.322)0.116

Smoking status1.709 (0.475–6.153)0.412

Brain metastasis0.844 (0.176–4.042)0.832

EGFR mutation type0.361 (0.090–1.439)0.149

Treatment received after failure on pemetrexed-carboplatin0.265 (0.060–1.163)0.078

was defined as age of 65 years or above. NA: not applicable.