Table 1.

Association of Nodal expression with clinicopathological data from patients.

Characteristics	Patient		Nodal expression
	Total	Low	High	p-value
Gender				0.12
Male	48	11	37
Female	27	11	16
Age (y)				0.794
≤ 60	28	9	19
> 60	47	13	34
Tumour location				0.309
Colon	43	10	32
Rectum	32	12	21
Tumour size (cm)				0.001
≤ 5	51	21	30
> 5	24	1	23
Tumour differentiation				0.264
Well / moderate	65	21	44
Poor	10	1	9
Tumour invasion				< 0.0001
T1 + T2	15	12	3
T3 + T4	60	10	50
Lymph node metastasis				< 0.0001
Negative	34	22	12
Positive	41	0	41
Distant metastasis				0.0017
Negative	58	22	36
Positive	17	0	17