Patient characteristics
| Palliative care | No palliative care | p value (univariate) | |
| Patients Median age (range) | 73 (48) 49 (27–87) | 80 (52) 57.5 (28–88) | 0.001* |
| Race/ethnicity | |||
| White | 54 (74) | 62 (78) | 0.77 |
| Asian | 6 (9) | 6 (8) | |
| Black | 9 (12) | 3 (4) | |
| Hispanic | 3 (4) | 5 (6) | |
| Other | 0 (0) | 2 (2) | |
| Unknown | 1 (1) | 2 (2) | |
| Histology | |||
| Squamous | 46 (63) | 47 (59) | 0.95 |
| Adenocarcinoma | 20 (27) | 20 (25) | |
| Neuroendocrine | 2 (3) | 4 (5) | |
| Other | 5 (7) | 9 (11) | |
| Stage | |||
| I | 4 (5) | 2 (2.5) | 0.13 |
| II | 16 (22) | 14 (17.5) | |
| III | 35 (48) | 31 (39) | |
| IV | 18 (25) | 33 (41) | |
| Initial treatment | |||
| Surgery | 2 (3) | 4 (5) | 0.76 |
| Surgery then chemoradiation | 8 (11) | 9 (11) | |
| Chemoradiation | 44 (60) | 54 (67) | |
| Chemoradiation then surgery | 6 (8) | 3 (4) | |
| Chemotherapy alone | 4 (6) | 2 (3) | |
| Radiation alone | 6 (8) | 4 (5) | |
| No treatment | 3 (4) | 4 (5) | |
Data are numbers (%) unless stated otherwise.
*Statistically significant.