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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