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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Gastrointest Cancer. 2012 Dec;43(4):562–569. doi: 10.1007/s12029-012-9368-3

Table 1.

Patient and tumor characteristics by treatment arm

Characteristics All enrolled Arm A (n=12) Arm B (n=11) P-value



Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent
Gender 0.32
  Male 18 78.3 8 66.7 10 90.9
  Female 5 21.7 4 33.3 1 9.1
Median age (range) 59 (42–78) 59 (45–78) 58 (42–74) 0.6
Race/ethnicity 0.093
  Caucasian 19 82.6 8 66.7 11 100
  African American 4 17.4 4 33.3 0 0
Performance status 0.0028
  0 13 56.6 3 25 10 90.9
  1 10 43.4 9 75.0 1 9.1
Adjuvant therapy
  Yes 2 8.6 0 0 2 18 0.22
  No 21 91.3 12 100 9 82
Sites of metastases
  Liver 17 74 6 50 11 100 0.014
  Lung 11 48 7 58 4 36 0.41
  Abdominal lymph nodes 9 39 5 42 4 36 1.00
  1–2 metastatic sites 18 78 9 75 9 82 1.00
  >3 Metastatic sites 5 22 3 25 2 18
Correlative studiesa
  KRAS wild type 15 75 7 70 8 80 0.5
  KRAS mutant 5 25 3 30 2 20
a

The correlative studies were assessed retrospectively following study completion on 20 patients for whom tissue samples were available (ten patients from each study arm).

The numbers in bold represent statistical significance P<0.05