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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2012 Nov 15;22(1):91–101. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-12-0545

Table 3.

Timing of KRAS test within the course of mCRC diagnosis and treatment among patients who received KRAS testing.

N (%) Tested
Year of mCRC diagnosis Before mCRC diagnosis At mCRC diagnosis (<90 days) Between diagnosis and treatment1 Before treatment1 (<90 days) After treatment1 initiated Total
2006 2 (6%) 3 (9%) 3 (9%) 13 (38%) 15 (44%) 34
2007 3 (5%) 4 (7%) 14 (24%) 16 (27%) 23 (39%) 59
2008 3 (5%) 19 (31%) 13 (21%) 21 (34%) 12 (19%) 62
2009 3 (12%) 13 (50%) 4 (15%) 9 (35%) 3 (12%) 26
1

treatment with EGFR inhibitors. Includes those tested but not yet treated.

*

KRAS test dates are unknown for 71 participants