The disparity of health facilities in an urban area discourages proposed treatment application in inoperable lung cancer patients

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Table 1 Patients’ epidemiological and clinical characteristics

Main features		Chemoradiotherapy (n = 54)		Chemotherapy (n = 61)
		n	Percentage %	n	Percentage %
Smoking	Yes	47	87	52	85.2
	No	7	13	9	14.8
Sex	Male	49	90.7	53	86.8
	Female	5	9.3	8	13.2
Age	≤65	33	61.1	31	50.8
	>65	19	38.9	30	49.2
Histological subtypes	NSCLC	54	46.9	61	53.1
	SQCLC	22	40.7	22	36
	ADC	17	31.5	23	37.7
	LCLC	0	0	2	3.3
	NSCLCx	15	27.8	14	23
Cancer history	Yes	7	12.9	6	9.8
	No	47	87.1	55	90.2
COPD	Yes	19	35.2	23	37.7
	No	35	64.8	38	62.3
Second-line chemotherapy	Yes	14	26	14	23
	No	40	74	51	77

Abbreviations: ADC, adenocarcinoma; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; LCLC, large cell lung cancer; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; NSCLCx, undefined histological subtype of NSCLC.

Figure 1 Overall survival of patients with non-small lung cancer stage IIIB.

Figure 2 Overall survival of chemotherapy-treated lung cancer patients who received radiotherapy compared to those who didn’t receive radiotherapy.