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

Table 1

Clinicopathologic characteristics of study participants.

	Hypocholesterolemia	Others	P value
Age
>65	6	94	0.753
≤65	7	155
Gender
Male	7	162	0.599
Female	6	87
Histology
Adenocarcinoma	10	180	0.963
Others	3	69
p Stage
I	9	170	0.815
II-III	4	79
pT status
pT1	4	141	0.123
pT2-4	9	108
pN status
pN0	9	189	0.830
pN1-2	4	60
CEA
Normal	6	151	0.454
High	7	98

CEA: carcinoembryonic antigen.