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Table 1 Characteristics of the patients with sporadic colorectal cancer

From: Over-expression of COX-2 mRNA in colorectal cancer

Variable

Patients

Number

60

Men/Women

34/26

Mean age (range)

65 (23–90) years

Tumor localization*

 

 -left colon

44

 -right colon

16

Tumor stage**

 

 -T2

12

 -T3

43

 -T4

5

 -lymph node metastases (N1/N2)

21 (12/9)

 -distant metastases (M1)

5

Differentiation grade***

 

 -well

1

 -moderate

56

 -poor

2

  1. *Left-sided colon: colon descendens, rectum and sigmoid; right sided colon: cecum, colon ascendens, colon transversum.
  2. **Tumor staging was done according to the TNM classification.
  3. ***Note that for one tumor sample the differentiation grade was unknown.
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