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Table 2 Patients demographics

From: Elevated preoperative CEA is associated with subclinical nodal involvement and worse survival in stage I non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Number of patients

4666

Male

2602

Female

2064

Age (mean)

65.3 ± 3.2 years

Smoking status

 Smoker

2003

 Non-smoker

1839

 Not specified

824

Histological types

 Adenocarcinoma

3622

 Squamous cell cancer

697

 Large cell cancer

54

 Adenosquamous carcinoma

17

 Carcinoid tumor

12

 Others

264

 Follow up (mean)

48.86 months

Country

 Japan

8

 China

1

 Korea

1

 Germany

1

 Italy

1