Digital PCR for the Analysis of MYC Copy Number Variation in Lung Cancer

Table 1

Patients’ characteristics and clinicopathological parameters of the study group ().

Characteristic	Group	(%)
Age (years), median (range)		67 (39-84)
Sex	Male	80 (62.0)
	Female	49 (38.0)
Smoking status	Never	15 (11.6)
	Former	70 (54.3)
	Current	44 (34.1)
Histological subtypes	Adenocarcinoma	67 (51.9)
	Squamous cell carcinoma	30 (23.3)
	Carcinoid	14 (10.9)
	LCNEC	8 (6.2)
	Other^#	10 (7.8)
Grade^§	G1	11 (8.5)
	G2	50 (38.8)
	G3	47 (36.4)
	G4	8 (6.2)
	Unknown	13 (10.1)
T stage	T1	62 (48.1)
	T2	45 (34.9)
	T3	16 (12.4)
	T4	3 (2.3)
	Unknown	3 (2.3)

LCNEC: large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma. ^#Four adenosquamous carcinomas, two non-small-cell lung cancers, one non-small-cell lung cancer (not otherwise specified), two small-cell carcinomas, and one synovial sarcoma. ^§Grade 1: well differentiated, low grade; grade 2: moderately differentiated, intermediate grade; grade 3: poorly differentiated, high grade; and grade 4: undifferentiated, high grade.