Research Article

Simple and Objective Prediction of Survival in Patients with Lung Cancer: Staging the Host Systemic Inflammatory Response

Table 2

Baseline characteristics of patients with lung cancer .

Parameter

Age (years)72 (31–94) years
Sex
 Male487 (55%)
 Female395 (45%)
Smoking
 Ever smoked94%
Mean pack (years)44 years
Centre
 Aberdeen294 (34%)
 Fife132 (15%)
 Stobhill245 (32%)
 Inverclyde161 (19%)
Deprivation (quintile)
 Most deprived267 (30%)
 2.00127 (14%)
 3.00251 (29%)
 4.00175 (20%)
 Most affluent62 (7%)
Performance status
 0 101 (11%)
 1 312 (35%)
 2285 (32%)
 3154 (17%)
 430 (3%)
Stage
 NSCLC I66 (7%)
 NSCLC II43 (5%)
 NSCLC St IIIa48 (5%)
 NSCLC St IIIb140 (16%)
 NSCLC St IV234 (26%)
 SCLC limited33 (4%)
 SCLC extensive82 (9%)
 No histology210 (24%)
Treatment
 Radical193 (27%)
 Palliative533 (73%)
mGPS
 0 213 (24%)
 1 290 (32%)
 2 210 (24%)
Missing data169 (19%)
12-month survival rate % (SE)30% (2)