Potentiality of a triple microRNA classifier: miR-193a-3p, miR-23a and miR-338-5p for early detection of colorectal cancer

Table 1 Patients’ demographics: characteristics of CRC patient and control blood cohorts

Characteristics		CRC patient blood cohort	Control blood cohort	pvalue^a
		(n = 112), n (%)	(n = 50), n (%)
Average age (years)		64.4 ± 9.0	61.5 ± 9.3	0.071
Gender	Male	67 (59.8%)	24 (48.0%)	0.174
	Female	45 (40.2%)	26 (52.0%)
Race	Malay	26 (23.2%)	15 (30.0%)	0.202
	Chinese	64 (57.1%)	21 (42.0%)
	Indian	22 (19.6%)	14 (28.0%)
TNM stage	I	25 (22.3%)
	II	32 (28.6%)
	III	31 (27.7%)
	IV	24 (21.4%)
Tumor location	Colon	72 (64.3%)
	Rectum	40 (35.7%)
Tumor grading	G1	25 (22.3%)
(adenocarcinoma)	G2	76 (67.9%)
	G3	11 (9.8%)

^a p value for age was calculated by chi-square test; p values for gender and race were calculated by Fisher’s exact test.

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