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Table 1 Patient characteristics and clinicopathological features according to RAS mutations

From: A retrospective observational study of clinicopathological features of KRAS, NRAS, BRAF and PIK3CA mutations in Japanese patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Characteristics

All patients

AllRASWT

KRASexon2 MT

Any otherRASMTa

Pvalue

(n= 264, %)

(n= 153, %)

(n= 90, %)

(n= 21, %)

Age

Median (range)

64 (32–86)

64 (32–82)

64 (38–82)

68 (48–86)

0.32*

Gender

Male

166 (62.9)

94 (61.4)

56 (62.2)

16 (76.2)

0.41**

Primary lesion

Right-sided colon

53 (20.1)

29 (19.0)

21 (23.3)

3 (14.3)

0.08**

Left-sided colon

70 (26.5)

50 (32.7)

15 (16.7)

5 (23.8)

 

Rectum

141 (53.4)

74 (48.3)

54 (60.0)

13 (61.9)

 

Histology

Well, mod

240 (90.9)

133 (86.9)

88 (97.8)

19 (90.5)

0.17**

Por, muc

24 (9.1)

20 (13.1)

2 (2.2)

2 (9.5)

 

Site of metastasis

Liver

137 (51.2)

73 (47.7)

49 (54.4)

15 (71.4)

0.10**

Lung

100 (37.9)

55 (35.9)

40 (44.4)

5 (23.8)

0.16**

Lymph node

150 (56.8)

87 (56.9)

49 (54.4)

14 (66.7)

0.59**

Peritoneum

52 (19.7)

33 (21.6)

15 (16.7)

4 (19.0)

0.64**

  1. *Kruskal–Wallis test; **χ2 or Fisher exact test. aany mutations in KRAS codons 61 or 146 or NRAS. mod: moderately differentiated; MT: mutation type; muc: mucinous carcinoma; por: poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma; well: well-differentiated adenocarcinoma; WT: wild type.