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Clinicopathological characteristics of the study cohort |
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| Characteristic |
Number of cases (%) |
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| Tissue type |
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| Normal colon tissue |
18 (40%) |
| Colon carcinoma |
27 (60%) |
| Cases with paired normal and carcinoma tissue |
15 (33%) |
| Characteristics of colon carcinomas |
|
| pT stage |
|
| pT1 |
1 (4%) |
| pT2 |
4 (15%) |
| pT3 |
20 (74%) |
| pT4 |
2 (7%) |
| pN stage |
|
| pN0 |
12 (44%) |
| pN1 |
7 (26%) |
| pN2 |
8 (30%) |
| pM |
|
| pMX |
26 (96%) |
| pM1 |
1 (4%) |
| DUKES Stage |
|
| A |
3 (11%) |
| B |
9 (33%) |
| C |
14 (52%) |
| D |
1 (4%) |
| Sex |
|
| male |
12 (44%) |
| female |
15 (56%) |
| Histological type |
|
| Adenocarcinoma |
30 (100%) |
Denkert et al. Molecular Cancer 2008 7:72 doi:10.1186/1476-4598-7-72 |
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