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Table 3 Clinicopathologic features of informative cases of Vietnamese and Japanese CRCs undergoing mitochondrial DNA analysis

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

 

Vietnamese CRC (n = 44)

Japanese CRC (n = 133)

p-value

Age, mean (range)

54.0 (32–82)

63.7 (37–88)

<0.001

Sex (male, female)

29/15

82/51

0.61

Tumour location

   

Right/left side*

10/34

32/101

0.98

Histology

   

Well/moderately/poorly differentiated

1/37/6

41/82/10

0.22

  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.
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