Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the study patients and their tumors, according to mTOR expression.

Characteristics	Total	mTOR-high	mTOR-low	P value
	N = 148	N = 94	N = 54
Gender				0.686
Male	114	71	43
Female	34	23	11
Age				0.473
<65	51	30	21
⩾65	97	64	33
Tumor length				0.302
<5	64	44	20
⩾5	84	50	34
pT status				<0.001
pT1	21	6	15
pT2	37	11	26
pT3	76	64	12
pT4	14	13	1
pN status				<0.001
pN0	56	19	37
PN1	92	75	17
TNM stage (AJCC)				<0.001
I	20	6	14
II	46	16	30
III	82	72	10
Differentiation grade				0.007
Well	20	13	7
Moderate	81	43	38
Poor	47	38	9

AJCC: American Joint Commission on Cancer Staging; pT: pathological tumor stage; pN: pathological node stage.