Table 3. Summary of clinicopathological features of tissues used in this study.

Group	Number
Gender
Male	12
Female	21
Age (year)
≤50	6
>50	27
Lymph node metastasis
No	19
Yes	14
Distant metastasis
No	25
Yes	8
Stage
I	3
II	12
III	13
IV	5
Location
Colon	18
Rectum	15

Clinicopathological characteristics of 33 colonic cancer patients whose paratumoral and tumor tissues were used for qRT-PCR and western blot