Table 1.

Patient demographics and disease characteristics at presentation (institutional data)

	Stenting cohort (n = 12)	Colostomy cohort (n = 24)	p Value
Mean age (year)	67.08	58.25	0.052
Gender (% female)	50	54.1	0.813
Race (% African American)	33.33	45.83	0.469
Cancer site: n (%)			1.000
Sigmoid	9 (75)	18 (75)
Rectum	2 (17)	4 (17)
Transverse	1 (8)	2 (8)
Histology: n (%) (adenocarcinoma)	12 (100)	24 (100)	1.000
Stage: n (%)			0.655
2	2 (17)	4 (17)
3	1 (8)	5 (21)
4	9 (75)	15 (62)
Metastasis: n (%)	10 (83)	15 (63)	0.186
Mean albumin (mg/dl)	3.10	2.69	0.212
Mean Charlson’s score	6.08	5.54	0.426