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. 2023 Aug 9;129(7):1095–1104. doi: 10.1038/s41416-023-02384-x

Table 1.

The distributions of demographic and tumor characteristics of rectal cancer patients in five centers and NCT04271657 trial.

GDPH (n = 54) SXCH (n = 185) SYSU6 (n = 300) SYSUCC (n = 477) YNCH (n = 171) Total (n = 1187) Cohort 2 (n = 100)
Age, years
 Mean ± SD 55.3 ± 9.9 53.6 ± 10.6 54.1 ± 11.5 54.7 ± 11.6 56.1 ± 11.4 54.6 ± 11.3 57.3 ± 12.1
Sex
 Male 39 (72.2) 110 (59.5) 212 (70.7) 314 (65.8) 115 (67.3) 790 (66.6) 76 (76.0)
 Female 15 (27.8) 75 (40.5) 88 (29.3) 163 (34.2) 56 (32.7) 397 (33.4) 24 (24.0)
CEA levela
 Normal 45 (83.3) 116 (62.7) 178 (59.3) 266 (55.8) 91 (53.2) 696 (58.6) 0 (0.0)
 Abnormal 9 (16.7) 69 (37.3) 122 (40.7) 211 (44.2) 80 (46.8) 491 (41.4) 0 (0.0)
 NA 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 100 (100)
Location
 Low 26 (48.1) 83 (44.9) 161 (53.7) 221 (46.3) 78 (45.6) 569 (47.9) 0 (0.0)
 Middle 27 (50.0) 89 (48.1) 130 (43.3) 224 (47.0) 84 (49.1) 554 (46.7) 0 (0.0)
 High 1 (1.9) 13 (7.0) 9 (3.0) 32 (6.7) 9 (5.3) 64 (5.4) 0 (0.0)
 NA 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 100 (100)
cTNM stage
 II 3 (5.6) 26 (14.1) 52 (17.3) 78 (16.4) 34 (19.9) 193 (16.3) 0 (0.0)
 III 51 (94.4) 159 (85.9) 248 (82.7) 399 (83.6) 137 (80.1) 994 (83.7) 100 (100)
mrT stage
 T1–T2 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 6 (2.0) 2 (0.4) 2 (1.2) 10 (0.8) 0 (0.0)
 T3 47 (87.0) 142 (76.8) 246 (82.0) 401 (84.1) 141 (82.5) 977 (82.3) 79 (79.0)
 T4 7 (13.0) 43 (23.2) 48 (16.0) 74 (15.5) 28 (16.4) 200 (16.8) 21 (21.0)
mrN stage
 N0 14 (25.9) 36 (19.5) 80 (26.7) 155 (32.5) 63 (36.8) 348 (29.3) 23 (23.0)
 N1 16 (29.6) 73 (39.5) 107 (35.7) 188 (39.4) 56 (32.7) 440 (37.1) 38 (38.0)
 N2 24 (44.4) 76 (41.1) 113 (37.7) 134 (28.1) 52 (30.4) 399 (33.6) 39 (39.0)
mrTD status
 Negative 37 (68.5) 128 (69.2) 248 (82.7) 421 (88.3) 124 (72.5) 958 (80.7) 77 (77.0)
 Positive 17 (31.5) 57 (30.8) 52 (17.3) 56 (11.7) 47 (27.5) 229 (19.3) 23 (23.0)
mrEMVI status
 Negative 25 (46.3) 121 (65.4) 218 (72.7) 417 (87.4) 115 (67.2) 896 (75.5) 74 (74.0)
 Positive 29 (53.7) 64 (34.6) 82 (27.3) 60 (12.6) 56 (32.7) 291 (24.5) 26 (26.0)
mrCRM status
 Clear 26 (48.1) 83 (44.9) 210 (70.0) 333 (69.8) 108 (63.2) 760 (64.0) 50 (50.0)
 Involved 28 (51.9) 102 (55.1) 90 (30.0) 144 (30.2) 63 (36.8) 427 (36.0) 50 (50.0)
mrDEC score
 0 20 (37.0) 61 (33.0) 174 (58.0) 303 (63.5) 76 (44.4) 634 (53.4) 40 (40.0)
 1 8 (14.8) 59 (31.9) 59 (19.7) 117 (24.5) 45 (26.3) 288 (24.3) 34 (34.0)
 2 12 (22.2) 31 (16.8) 36 (12.0) 28 (5.9) 29 (17.0) 136 (11.5) 13 (13.0)
 3 14 (25.9) 34 (18.4) 31 (10.3) 29 (6.1) 21 (12.3) 129 (10.9) 13 (13.0)
TRG
 0 0 (0.0) 31 (16.8) 86 (28.7) 112 (23.5) 43 (25.1) 272 (22.9) 23 (23.0)
 1 1 (1.9) 55 (29.7) 98 (32.7) 124 (26.0) 40 (23.4) 318 (26.8) 32 (32.0)
 2 1 (1.9) 55 (29.7) 106 (35.3) 239 (50.1) 50 (29.2) 451 (38.0) 33 (33.0)
 3 0 (0.0) 42 (22.7) 10 (3.3) 2 (0.4) 38 (22.2) 92 (7.8) 12 (12.0)
 NA 52 (96.3) 2 (1.1) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 54 (4.5) 0 (0.0)

CEA carcinoembryonic antigen, TNM tumor-node-metastasis, mr magnetic resonance, TD tumor deposit, EMVI extramural vascular invasion, CRM circumferential resection margin, TRG tumor regression grade, NA not applicable.

Unless otherwise indicated, data are number of patients, and data in parentheses are percentages.

aThe normal values for CEA level range from 0 to 5 ng/ml.