Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics, postoperative treatment, and outcome at baseline of participants in this study
From: Myxoid stroma is associated with postoperative relapse in patients with stage II colon cancer
Characteristics | Number (%) | Characteristics | Number (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
Gender | Â | Surgical margin | Â |
 Male | 94 (55.6) |  Negative | 163 (96.4) |
 Female | 75 (44.4) |  Positive | 6 (3.6) |
Age (yr, average, range) | 70.5 (29–92) | Glucose tolerance |  |
Preoperative serum CEA value |  |  Normal | 120 (71.0) |
  < 5 | 106 (62.7) |  Abnormal | 49 (29.0) |
  ≥ 5 | 63 (37.3) | Obstruction / perforation |  |
Preoperative serum CA19–9 value |  |  Absence | 157 (92.9) |
  < 37 | 143 (84.6) |  Presence | 12 (7.1) |
  ≥ 37 | 26 (15.4) | Surgical approach |  |
Tumor location |  |  Laparotomy | 101 (59.8) |
 Right | 88 (52.1) |  Laparoscopic surgery | 68 (40.2) |
 Left | 81 (47.9) | Examined lymph node |  |
Tumor size (cm, average, range) | 5.0 (1–17) |   ≥ 12 | 115 (68.0) |
Differentiation |  |   < 12 | 54 (32.0) |
 Well, Mod, pap | 150 (88.8) | Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy |  |
 Por, Muc, Sig | 19 (11.2) |  No | 147 (86.1) |
pT category |  |  Yes | 22 (13.9) |
 pT3 | 144 (85.2) | Postoperative relapse | n = 23 |
 pT4a | 13 (7.7) |  Lung | 6 |
 pT4b | 12 (7.1) |  Liver | 8 |
Lymphatic invasion |  |  Peritoneum | 5 |
 Absent | 104 (61.5) |  Paraaortic lymph node | 3 |
 Present | 65 (38.5) |  Local relapse | 1 |
Vessel invasion | Â | Desmoplastic reaction | Â |
 Absent | 71 (42.0) |  Mature stroma | 76 (45.0) |
 Present | 98 (58.0) |  Intermediate stroma | 62 (36.1) |
Tumor budding |  |  Myxoid (i.e. immature) stroma | 32 (18.9) |
 Grade 1 | 106 (62.7) |  |  |
 Grade 2 | 43 (25.4) |  |  |
 Grade 3 | 20 (11.9) |  |  |