Prognostic Value of Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) in Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Korean Medicine

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients.

	N	%
Sex
Men	93	56
Women	72	44
Age (years)
<65	106	64
≥65	59	36
Smoking
Never smoker	81	49
Ex-smoker or current smoker	84	51
ECOG-PS
0-1	90	55
≥2	75	45
Histological type
Adenocarcinoma	110	67
Squamous-cell carcinoma	29	18
Others	26	16
Stage
IIIB	11	7
IV	154	93
Extrathoracic metastasis
No	50	30
Yes	115	70
History of anticancer treatment
No	26	16
Yes	139	84
Treatment
KM monotherapy	96	58
KM with conventional therapy	69	42

Abbreviations: ECOG, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group; PS, performance status; KM, Korean medicine.