(HealthDay News) -- Men are more likely to die from inoperable non-small cell lung cancer than women, U.S. researchers report.
In fact, gender is the most important factor influencing overall survival of patients with this disease, the new study found.
A team of researchers in six U.S. cities studied 1,365 patients enrolled in national group trials to determine the effect of such sociodemographic factors as gender, race and marital status on lung cancer outcomes.
They found that men had a 1.23 times higher death rate than women, while race and marital status didn't significantly affect outcomes.
"Our study corroborates the fact that gender plays an important role as a prognostic factor in people diagnosed with lung cancer," the lead author, Dr. Benjamin Movsas, chair of the radiation oncology department at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, said in a news release. "This underscores the importance of studying this disease entity in light of the fact that women diagnosed with lung cancer tend to have a better outcome in terms of survival."
The study was to be presented Thursday at the Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology. Read more...
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