Table 1.
Characteristics of colorectal cancer patients undergoing surgery in 2004 by cancer staging.
| Gender | Age (years) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | <30 | 31-40 | 41-50 | 51-60 | >60 | Total | |
| stage 0 | 97 | 60 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 38 | 88 | 78(1.4%)* |
| stage 1 | 463 | 324 | 6 | 27 | 65 | 167 | 522 | 787(14.1%)* |
| stage 2 | 811 | 580 | 15 | 49 | 142 | 229 | 956 | 1,391(24.9%)* |
| stage 3 | 960 | 711 | 14 | 94 | 200 | 340 | 1023 | 1,671(29.9%)* |
| stage 4 | 633 | 488 | 31 | 61 | 164 | 219 | 676 | 1,151(20.6%)* |
| unspecified stage | 263 | 165 | 10 | 19 | 44 | 75 | 280 | 428(7.7%)* |
| 3257 (58.3%)# |
2328 (41.7%)# |
157 (2.8%)# |
257 (4.6%)# |
637 (11.4%)# |
1068 (19.1%)# |
3545 (63.5%)# |
5585 (100%) | |
* the number in the parenthesis indicates the percentage of each stage (e.g. 1.4%= 78/5585);
#the number in the parenthesis indicates the percentage of gender or age level (e.g. 58.3%= 3257/5585)