Characteristics of patients referred for consideration of resection of early-stage lung cancer
| Operative (N=467) | Non-operative (N=81) | P value | |
| N (%) | N (%) | ||
| Age (years), median, range | 70.4 (18.1–87.7) | 77.7 (50.8–88.9) | <0.0001 |
| Gender | 0.9042 | ||
| Female | 234 (50.1) | 40 (49.4) | |
| Male | 233 (49.9) | 41 (50.6) | |
| Stage | 0.0558 | ||
| 0 | 13 (2.8) | 0 | |
| IA1 | 37 (7.9) | 10 (12.3) | |
| IA2 | 119 (25.5) | 27 (33.3) | |
| IA3 | 94 (20.1) | 21 (25.9) | |
| IB | 44 (9.4) | 8 (9.9) | |
| IIA | 21 (4.5) | 4 (4.9) | |
| IIB | 79 (16.9) | 8 (9.9) | |
| IIIA | 60 (12.8) | 3 (3.7) |