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Table 2 Clinicopathologic features of informative cases of Vietnamese and Japanese CRCs undergoing microsatellite instability analysis

From: Differences in K-rasand mitochondrial DNA mutations and microsatellite instability between colorectal cancers of Vietnamese and Japanese patients

 

Vietnamese CRC (n = 27)

Japanese CRC (n = 130)

p-value

Age, mean (range)

50.0 (34–80)

63.2 (32–86)

<0.001

Sex, male/female

18/9

78/52

0.67

Tumour location

   

Right/left side*

6/21

35/95

0.79

Histology

   

Well/moderately/poorly differentiated

1/23/3

76/54/0

0.005

  1. *Right-side colon includes the cecum, ascending and transverse colon. Left-side colon includes the descending and sigmoid colon and rectum. CRC, colorectal cancer.