Research Article

Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Outcomes of Simultaneous Multiple Primary Lung Cancer

Table 2

Histological characteristics.

Overall patients, N = 336Same histological type, N = 297Different histological types, N = 39 value

Pathologic characteristics
 All adenocarcinoma291 (86.6)291 (98.0)0 (0)
 Adenocarcinoma + squamous26 (7.7)0 (0)26 (66.7)
 All squamous6 (1.8)6 (2.0)0 (0)
 Adenocarcinoma + others11 (3.3)0 (0)11 (28.2)
 Squamous + others2 (0.6)0 (0)2 (5.1)
TNM stage<0.001
 I A163 (18.8)63 (21.2)0 (0)
 I A296 (28.6)94 (31.6)2 (5.1)
 I A346 (13.7)42 (14.1)4 (10.2)
 I B83 (24.7)78 (26.3)5 (12.8)
 II A12 (3.6)9 (3.0)3 (7.7)
 II B17 (5.1)9 (3.0)8 (20.5)
 III A13 (3.9)2 (0.7)11 (28.2)
 III B4 (1.2)0 (0)4 (10.2)
 IV A2 (0.6)0 (0)2 (5.1)
Pleural invasion108 (32.1)86 (29.0)22 (56.4)0.001
Treatment
 Surgery timing0.287
  Concurrent262 (78.0)229 (77.1)33 (84.6)
  Sequential74 (22.0)68 (22.9)6 (15.4)
  Surgery interval, mon7 [417]7 [416]9 [317]0.564
 Resect all nodules0.263
  Yes122 (36.3)111 (37.4)11 (28.2)
  No214 (63.7)186 (62.6)28 (71.8)
Other treatments
 Chemotherapy135 (40.2)109 (36.7)26 (66.6)<0.001
 Target therapy11 (3.3)11 (3.7)0 (0)0.624

Values are n (%) or median (interquartile range).