Table 1.
Patient characteristics of all 35 patients with respect to primary tumor side, metastatic sites, number of metastatic sites and previous treatment as well as gender and age.
| Characteristics | No. |
| No. Patients | 35 |
| Gender, male/female | 25/10 |
| median age, years (range) | 62 (38–75) |
| Primary tumor site | |
| Colon | 21 |
| Rectum | 12 |
| Ileum | 1 |
| Metastatic sites | |
| Liver | 26 |
| Lung | 12 |
| Lymph nodes | 6 |
| Local relapse | 3 |
| other sites | 3 |
| Peritoneum | 8 |
| No. of metastatic sites | |
| 1 | 14 |
| 2 | 17 |
| ≥3 | 4 |
| Previous treatment | |
| surgery only | 28 |
| surgery+radiotherapy+adjuvant chemotherapy | 1 |
| surgery+adjuvant chemotherapy | 5 |