Table 5. Correlation between postoperative relapse/survival and clinicopathological features or postoperative s-CEA levels in the CRC study patients using multivariate logistic regression analysis.

Group 1, still elevated at 1-year postsurgery; group 2, normalized by 1-year postsurgery; s-CEA, serum CEA; CRC, colorectal cancer; WD, well differentiated; MD, moderately differentiated; PD, poorly differentiated; SRC, signet ring cell; Muc, mucinous.