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Table 1 Criteria for patient selection

From: Differential presence of exons (DPE): sequencing liquid biopsy by NGS. A new method for clustering colorectal Cancer patients

 

Non-metastatic cohort (N)

Metastatic cohort (M)

Unclassifiable cohort (U)

Inclusion criteria

Age > 18 years

Candidates for elective surgery

Provided informed consent

Histological diagnosis: colon adenocarcinoma of enteroid pattern

• pT1-pT3

• Any T or N

• pT4 and/or pN1-pN2

• pN0

• M1: liver metastasis with an enteroid adenocarcinoma pattern, established histologically

• M0 (established by PET-CT)

• M0 (established by PET-CT)

• R0

Exclusion criteria

Previous cancers in other locations

Lynch syndrome or other hereditary intestinal cancers