Impact of HIV Infection on Medicare Beneficiaries with Lung Cancer

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of NSCLC cases based on HIV infection status.

	HIV (𝑁=174)	Non-HIV (𝑁=111,045)
Men (%)	67.8	52.4
	𝑃<0.001 *
Age, years (%)
65–74	60.9	50.0
75–84	35.6	41.9
85+	3.5	8.1
	𝑃=0.005 *
Race (%)
White	58.6	86.7
Black	34.2	7.9
Other	7.2	5.4
	𝑃<0.001 *
Never married (%)
Men	33.1	7.5
	𝑃<0.001 *
Women	5.4	6.6
	𝑃=0.717 *
Both	24.1	7.0
	𝑃<0.001 *
Urban/Rural (%)
Big Metro	81.6	61.2
Metro	17.2	25.9
Other	1.2	12.9
	𝑃<0.001 *
Stage of disease
I	30.5	26.3
II	2.3	2.8
III	31.6	31.8
IV	35.6	39.1
	𝑃=0.064 *
Histology
Large cell carcinoma	5.8	4.4
Squamous cell carcinoma	24.1	25.4
Adenocarcinoma	35.1	35.4
Other, unspecified	35.1	34.8
	𝑃=0.847 *

*For comparing HIV and non-HIV patients.