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Table 1 Patient and tumour characteristics in 33 patients treated with cetuximab based chemoradiotherapy

From: Expression of Transketolase like gene 1 (TKTL1) predicts disease-free survival in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

 

Patients (n)

%

Patients included

33

100

Median age (range)

61 (33 - 76)

Gender

  

Male

23

70

Female

10

30

Performance Status (ECOG*)

  

0

23

70

1

9

27

2

1

3

Tumour marker

  

CEA, median (range)

2,4 μg/l (0.5 - 50,3)

CA 19-9, median (range)

10 kU/l (1 - 298)

Clinical T-staging (TRUS §§ )

  

cT2

6

18

cT3

24

73

cT4

3

9

Clinical N-staging (TRUS §§ )

  

cN negative

10

30,3

cN positive

23

69,7

TRG § (JSCCR ┼┼ )

  

0

1

3

1a

6

18

1b

4

12

2

19

58

3

3

9

  1. §§: Transrectal ultrasound; §: Tumour regression grade; ┼┼ = Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum