Table 2.

Resected colorectal adenocarcinoma patients analysed by immunohistochemistry for APRIL protein expression on tissue microarray

Variable	Frequency/median(range)
Age	71 years (22-92)
Gender
Male	121
Female	113
Histological Grade
Poor	27
Moderate	199
Well	8
Tumour site
Proximal colon	79
Distal colon	86
Rectum	69
Stage
I	46
II	86
III (adjuvant chemotherapy)1	102 (63)
N2	48

¹In this series 63/102 (62%) Stage III patients received adjuvant chemotherapy with 5FU