Table 2.
Patients’ characteristics
| Sensitive (n = 22) | Insensitive (n = 117) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UFT group (n = 12) | Non-UFT (n = 10) | P-valueb | UFT group (n = 60) | Non-UFT (n = 57) | P-valueb | |
| Age | ||||||
| Median (range) | 56 (46–65) | 57 (40–65) | 0.72 | 58.5 (22–74) | 57 (36–74) | 0.23 |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 7 | 4 | 0.67 | 38 | 31 | 0.35 |
| Female | 5 | 6 | 22 | 26 | ||
| Location of tumor | ||||||
| 8 | 7 | 0.87 | 43 | 40 | 0.86 | |
| Rectum | 4 | 3 | 17 | 17 | ||
| Depth of invasiona | ||||||
| m, sm | 0 | 0 | 0.04 | 5 | 5 | 1.00 |
| mp | 7 | 1 | 7 | 7 | ||
| ss, se, a1, a2 | 5 | 7 | 47 | 44 | ||
| si, ai | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Lymphnode metastasis | ||||||
| n0 | 7 | 2 | 0.07 | 38 | 33 | 0.55 |
| n1−3 | 5 | 8 | 22 | 24 | ||
| Dukes | ||||||
| A | 5 | 0 | 0.08 | 10 | 10 | 0.69 |
| B | 2 | 1 | 28 | 21 | ||
| C | 5 | 8 | 21 | 24 | ||
| D | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Histologic differentiation | ||||||
| Well | 5 | 3 | 0.49 | 22 | 15 | 0.28 |
| Moderately | 6 | 7 | 37 | 42 | ||
| Mucinous | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
aAccording to general rules for clinical and pathological studies on cancer of the colon, rectum, and anus
bChi-square test except for age with Wilcoxon test