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. 2005 May 24;92(12):2240–2248. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602621

Table 1. Summary of clinicopathological and microsatellite features of colorectal cancer samples used for construction of the classifier (training set).

      Localisation in colon
Tumour stage N (Danish, Finnish)
Patient group N (Danish, Finnish) Median age (range) Right (Danish, Finnish) Left (Danish, Finnish) II III
All samples 118 (44,75) 62.0 (32–87) 44 (7,37) 74 (36,38) 36 (14,22) 65 (23,42)
Normala 17 (6,11) 57.7 (34–80) 10 (3,7) 7 (3,4) NA NA
Sporadic microsatellite unstable tumoursb 19 (4,15) 66.8 (44–87) 11 (3,8) 8 (1,7) 8 (2,6) 11 (2,9)
Hereditary microsatellite unstable tumoursb,c,d 15 (3,12) 49.6 (3275) 6 (1,5) 9 (2,7) 10 (2,8) 5 (1,4)
Microsatellite stable tumoursb 67 (30,37) 61.0 (36–85) 12 (0,12) 55 (30,25) 18 (10,8) 49 (20,29)

NA=not applicable.

a

Normal biopsy taken from the resection edge of a tumour.

b

According to microsatellite analysis.

c

According to Amsterdam Criteria 1.

d

With known germline mutations.