Table 1 General characteristics of the study subjects (N = 1, 404)
From: Work-relatedness of lung cancer by smoking and histologic type in Korea
Characteristics | Men(n = 973) | Women(n = 431) | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | ||
Age | p < 0.001* | ||||
20 ~ 29 | 3 | 0.3 | 3 | 0.7 | |
30 ~ 39 | 7 | 0.7 | 8 | 1.9 | |
40 ~ 49 | 52 | 5.3 | 39 | 9.0 | |
50 ~ 59 | 186 | 19.1 | 118 | 27.4 | |
60 ~ 69 | 356 | 36.6 | 132 | 30.6 | |
≥70 | 369 | 37.9 | 131 | 30.4 | |
Smoking history | p < 0.001** | ||||
Non-smoker | 80 | 8.2 | 374 | 86.8 | |
Ex-smoker | 424 | 43.6 | 28 | 6.5 | |
Current smoker | 469 | 48.2 | 29 | 6.7 | |
Histologic type | p < 0.001** | ||||
SCLC | 130 | 13.3 | 17 | 3.9 | |
NSCLC | |||||
ADC | 309 | 31.8 | 277 | 64.3 | |
SCC | 273 | 28.1 | 24 | 5.6 | |
LCC | 30 | 3.1 | 10 | 2.3 | |
Others† | 231 | 23.7 | 103 | 23.9 | |
Work-relatedness | p < 0.001** | ||||
Definite | 31 | 3.2 | 0 | 0.0 | |
Probable | 95 | 9.8 | 7 | 1.6 | |
Possible | 296 | 30.4 | 44 | 10.2 | |
Suspicious | 194 | 19.9 | 63 | 14.6 | |
No relation | 354 | 36.4 | 317 | 73.6 | |
Undetermined | 3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |