Concerted down-regulation of immune-system related genes predicts metastasis in colorectal carcinoma

BMC Cancer

Table 1 Patient characteristics

Characteristic	Non-recurrent		Metachronous metastasis		p-value¹
Characteristic	absolute	%	absolute	%	p-value¹
Total number	33		12
Age [years]					n.s.
Mean	65		68
Median	67		67
Disease-free survival time [months]					0.000
Mean	78		17
Median	77		13
Gender					n.s.
Female	14	42,4	8	66,7
Male	19	57,6	4	33,3
UICC stage					n.s.
I	6	18,2	2	16,7
II	18	54,5	8	66,7
III	9	27,3	2	16,7
Location					n.s.
Colon	14	42,4	5	41,7
Sigma	16	48,5	4	33,3
Rectum	3	9,1	3	25

¹The given p-value refers to the significance of the correlation of the respective characteristic with disease-free survival time and was calculated using a two-sided t-test. n.s., not significant.

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