Table 3 Prognoses of invasive colonic adenocarcinomas resected for cure (R0) or with residual tumour (R1+R2) and stratified by stage-TNM/UICC [12, 13, 14, 23].

I *

T1 N0 M0

T2 N0 M0

71 +/- 8%

(n = 129)

100% **

(n = 1)

<0.5188

II *

T3 N0 M0

T4 N0 M0

63 +/- 5%

(n = 388)

45 +/- 30%

(n = 11)

<0.2392

III *

anyT N1 M0

anyT N2 M0

38 +/- 5%

(n = 331)

4% **

(n = 25)

<0.0007

IV *

anyT anyN M1

17 +/- 8%

(n = 83)

5% **

(n = 21)

<0.1584

I-IV *

51 +/- 3%

(n = 931)

14 +/- 9%

(n = 58)

<0.0001