Lung Cancer International

Research Article

Preoperative Total Serum Cholesterol and Patients' Survival in Resected Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer

Table 3

Comparison between 5-year survivors and the others.
　5-year survivorNonsurvivorP value
Age   
 >6568320.234
 ≤659765
Gender   
 Male95740.003
 Female7023
Histology   
 Adenocarcinoma13654<0.001
 Others2943
pT status   
 pT111233<0.001
 pT2-45364
pN status   
 pN014355<0.001
 pN1-22242
CEA   
 Normal11245<0.001
 High5352
TSC   
 Low580.113
　
 Normal/high16089
CI: Confidence interval, CEA: carcinoembryonic antigen, and TSC: total serum cholesterol.