Baseline demographics
| Patient number | Age (years) | Gender | Ethnicity | Smoking status (pack years) | Histology | Pre-treatment stage* |
| 1 | 56 | Female | White | Former (3) | ADC | IB |
| 2 | 50 | Male | White | Active (9) | ADC | IIA |
| 3 | 78 | Male | White | Former (56) | ADC | IIB |
| 4 | 69 | Male | White | Former (35) | ADC | IIIA |
| 5 | 53 | Male | White | Former (80) | ADC | IIIA |
| 6 | 70 | Male | White | Former (11) | ADC | IIIA |
| 7 | 67 | Male | White | Former (45) | ADC | IIIA |
| 8 | 48 | Female | White | Former (37) | ADC | IIIA |
| 9 | 64 | Male | White | Former (80) | SCC | IIIA |
*Staged according to AJCC TNM 7th edition.
ADC, adenocarcinoma; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma; AJCC TNM, American Joint Committee on Cancer Tumor Node Metastases.