Table 1. Patients and characteristics of metastasis and recurrence.
|
OEsophageal cancer (N=20) |
Gastric cancer (N=34) |
Colorectal cancer (N=33) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entire | CTC (+) | CTC (−) | P-value | Entire | CTC (+) | CTC (−) | P-value | Entire | CTC (+) | CTC (−) | P-value | |
| Age | 0.78 | 0.59 | 0.78 | |||||||||
| |
65.8 (55–77) |
65.4 |
64.6 |
|
57.3 (27–83) |
56.7 |
59.3 |
|
64.2 (28–81) |
65.7 |
64.5 |
|
| Sex |
|
|
|
0.17 |
|
|
|
0.01 |
|
|
|
0.62 |
| Male | 17 (85.0%) | 12 | 5 | 25 (73.5%) | 16 | 9 | 14 (42.4%) | 10 | 4 | |||
| Female |
3 (15.0%) |
3 |
0 |
|
9 (26.5%) |
9 |
0 |
|
19 (57.6%) |
12 |
7 |
|
| Metastatic/recurrent |
|
|
|
0.56 |
|
|
|
0.01 |
|
|
|
0.07 |
| Metastatic | 14 (70.0%) | 10 | 4 | 25 (73.5%) | 16 | 9 | 22 (66.7%) | 17 | 5 | |||
| Recurrent |
6 (30.0%) |
5 |
1 |
|
9 (26.5%) |
9 |
0 |
|
11 (33.3%) |
5 |
6 |
|
| Pattern of metastasis |
|
|
|
0.27 |
|
|
|
0.12 |
|
|
|
0.47 |
| Local | 1 (5.0%) | 1 | 0 | 1 (2.9%) | 1 | 0 | 3 (9.1%) | 1 | 2 | |||
| Lymph node | 3 (15.0%) | 3 | 0 | 5 (14.7%) | 5 | 0 | 2 (6.1%) | 1 | 1 | |||
| Hematogeneous | 16 (80.0%) | 11 | 5 | 17 (50.0%) | 10 | 7 | 22 (66.6%) | 15 | 7 | |||
| Peritoneal | 0 (0%) | 0 | 0 | 11 (32.4%) | 9 | 2 | 6 (18.2%) | 5 | 1 | |||
Abbreviation: CTC=circulating tumour cell.