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Table 2 Clinical factors for severity and distribution pattern of interstitial lung disease

From: Clinical features and risk factors for interstitial lung disease spreading in low-dose irradiated areas after definitive radiotherapy with or without durvalumab consolidation therapy for patients with non-small cell lung cancer

  

Grade 0–1 ILD

≧Grade 2 ILD

p value

 

Type I

Type II

p value

  

(n = 55)

(n = 19)

  

(n = 62)

(n = 12)

 

Age (years)

 

68

71

0.622

 

68.5

71

0.597

Sex, n

Male

36

15

  

41

10

 
 

Female

19

4

0.273

 

21

2

0.204

Brinkman index

 

820

990

0.637

 

783

1000

0.27

Pulmonary fibrosis score, n

0–1

54

15

  

58

11

 
 

≥ 2

1

4

0.014

 

4

1

0.598

Pulmonary emphysema score

 

1

0

0.894

 

1

0

0.794

LDH (U/L)

 

197

233

0.015

 

198

226

0.016

CRP (mg/dL)

 

0.23

1.05

0.017

 

0.245

1.05

0.105

HbA1c (%)

 

5.9

6.1

0.29

 

5.85

6.9

0.002

Glucose (mg/dL)

 

102

106

0.26

 

102

131.5

0.02

KL-6 (U/mL)

 

324

313

0.821

 

295

439

0.312

Clinical stage of lung cancer

 

IIIB

IIIB

0.599

 

IIIB

IIIB

0.654

Chemotherapy, n

–

16

2

  

15

3

 
 

+

39

17

0.09

 

47

9

0.604

Durvalumab, n

–

38

13

  

44

7

 
 

+

17

6

0.957

 

18

5

0.293

V 20 (%)

 

20.8

30.2

0.002

 

21.2

28.2

0.086

V 5 (%)

 

35.6

46.5

0.01

 

35.9

41.4

0.356

MLD (Gy)

 

11.6

15.2

0.005

 

12.1

15

0.21

Vs5 (cc)

 

2224

1560

0.083

 

2089

2052

0.912

Lung volume (cc)

 

3389

3238

0.376

 

3371

3418

0.907

ILD onset timing (days)

 

93

61

0.007

 

93

39

0.001

  1. Abbreviations
  2. LDH: Lactate dehydrogenase
  3. CRP: C-reactive protein
  4. HbA1c: hemoglobin A1c
  5. KL-6: Krebs von den Lungen-6
  6. Vx: proportion of the volume receiving ≥ x Gy
  7. MLD: mean lung dose
  8. Vs5: absolute lung volume spared from a 5 Gy dose
  9. ILD: interstitial lung disease
  10. Type I: shadows distributed only within the high-dose (> 40 Gy) irradiated area
  11. Type II: shadows distributed outside the high-dose (> 40 Gy) irradiated area