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. 2008 May 30;134(12):1319–1323. doi: 10.1007/s00432-008-0417-z

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