Flaviane Cristina Rocha Cesar, Lizete Malagoni de Almeida Cavalcante Oliveira, Mariana Cristyen Galvão, Ana Luiza Andrade Lacerda
How Do Healthcare Professionals Develop the Communication Process to Promote Patients' Health Literacy?
International journal of environmental research and public health
whether sex independent prognostic factor lung cancer survival subject ongoing debate large national registries single hospital studies shown conflicting findings study explore impact sex lungcancerspecific survival unselected population wellcharacterized respect stage covariates patients diagnosed lung cancer single hospital serving whole defined region southern norway 10 years 20072016 included followup data available least 56 months patients analyses adjusted stage treatment performance status smoking age histology epidermal growth factor receptoranaplastic lymphoma kinaseimmunotherapy treatment period differences lungcancerspecific survival sex explored using restricted mean survival times rmst 1261 patients diagnosed lung cancer 596 47 females 665 53 males mean ages 685 695 years respectively observed 5year lungcancerspecific survival rate 274 95 ci 237 312 females 214 95 ci 182 248 males however adjustment covariates significant differences sex observed 5year rmst 09 months shorter 95 ci 21 031 p 026 males compared females cohort sex associated difference lungcancerspecific survival adjusting clinical biological factors imbalance stage diagnosis main contributor observed difference lungcancerspecific survival sex