Research Article
The Combination of CA125 and NSE Is Useful for Predicting Liver Metastasis of Lung Cancer
Table 1
The clinical characteristics of patients with primary lung cancer.
| | Characteristics | LM group () | NLM group () | value |
| | Gendera | | | | | Male | 133 (72.2%) | 1137 (77.3%) | 0.155 | | Female | 39 (27.8%) | 437 (22.7%) | | | Mean ageb | | | 0.105 | | Histopathological type | | | | | Squamous cell carcinoma | 57 (33.1%) | 508 (32.3%) | | | Adenocarcinoma | 70 (40.7%) | 771 (49.0%) | | | Large-cell carcinoma | 3 (1.7%) | 22 (1.4%) | | | Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) | 28 (16.3%) | 178 (11.3%) | | | Poorly differentiated | 11 (6.4%) | 57 (3.6%) | | | Other NSCLC | 1 (0.6%) | 25 (1.6%) | | | Unknown | 2 (1.2%) | 13 (0.8%) | | | Treatment | | | | | Surgery | 17 (10.0%) | 269 (17.1%) | | | Chemotherapy | 111 (64.5%) | 1000 (63.5%) | | | Radiotherapy | 17 (9.9%) | 185 (11.8%) | | | Symptomatic treatment | 42 (24.4%) | 355 (22.6%) | | | Others | 13 (7.6%) | 85 (5.4%) | |
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Abbreviations: LM: liver metastasis; NLM: nonliver metastasis; NSCLC: non-small-cell lung cancer. aChi-squared test was performed. bIndependent -test was performed. revealed a significant difference. |
