Female Lung Cancer: Re-Analysis of National Survey of Lung Cancer in Korea, 2005
- Authors
- In, Kwang Ho; Lee Sung Yong
- Issue Date
- 12월-2010
- Publisher
- 대한 폐암학회
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF LUNG CANCER, v.9, no.2, pp.57 - 63
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF LUNG CANCER
- Volume
- 9
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 57
- End Page
- 63
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/84676
- Abstract
- Purpose: Female lung cancers have different clinical features and therapeutic
results as compared to those of male lung cancers. The aim of this study
was to analyze the differences of Korean men and women with lung cancer.
Materials and Methods: We re-analyzed the results of a national survey of
lung cancer conducted by the Korean Association for the Study of Lung
Cancer in 2005. Results: Of the 8,788 patients, 2,124 (24.2%) were female.
The mean age at the diagnosis was 62.5 years for the females and 64.8 years
for the males and the difference was significant (p<0.001). An age <50 years
was more frequent for the women than for the men (16.2% vs. 7.9%,
respectively; p=0.001). The stages between genders were different for the
patients with non-small cell carcinoma (NSCLC) (p<0.001), but not for the
patients with small cell carcinoma. The overall survival time was longer for
woman than that for the man (p<0.001). However, the male patients had
longer survival for the smokers with adenocarcinoma and the smokers with
squamous cell carcinoma. The never smoker female patients had a better
survival time than did the smoking female patients, but the male patient’
survival was not influenced by the smoking status. The stage-specific survival
rates were better for the women at all stages
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