Table 1.

Association of Fusobacterium nucleatum infection with clinicopathologic variables (n = 101)

	n	Cancer/normal tissue fold changes [2-ΔΔCT(Median)]	P value
Gender
Male	55	1029.19 (418.27, 6517.82)
Female	46	7348.74 (529.05, 8827.37)	0.539
Age (yr)
< 65	52	1100.68 (671.32, 5624.36)
≥ 65	49	677.03 (502.86, 4946.93)	0.375
Location of CRC
Rectum	59	1045.11 (824.66, 7567.37)
Colon	42	6844.72 (1735.91, 8141.03)	0.456
Differentiation
Moderately and high	59	524.95 (345.19, 2341.54)
Low	42	1158.67 (432.61, 1988.30)	0.412
Tissue infiltration
T1 + T2	25	1029.20 (213.76, 1365.41)
T3 + T4	76	837.89 (196,36, 2679.33)	0.676
Lymph node metastasis
N0	49	212.87 (37.25, 257.37)
N1 + N2	52	1538.05 (479.21, 2643.12)	0.005
Duke stages
A	12	739.50 (132.24, 1615.65)
B	36	837.46 (264.33, 1489.65)	0.368
C	46	1132.31 (289.73, 1688.72)
D	7	1356.05 (311.03, 2321.73)