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Table 1.

Patient characteristics

Patient	Age (years)	Sex	Tumor location	T^†	N	M	G	Stage^‡	Complication	Presurgical treatment	RIN^§
Patient	Age (years)	Sex	Tumor location	T^†	N	M	G	Stage^‡	Complication	Presurgical treatment	Normal	Tumor
1	69	M	Ascending colon	T3	N1b	M0	G2	IIIB	Diabetes mellitus	None	8.2	7.9
2	61	M	Ascending colon	T3	N0	M0	G2	IIA	None	None	9.0	9.0
3	56	F	Sigmoid colon	T2	N0	M0	G2	I	None	None	7.5	6.9

†T, N, M, and G refer to the primary tumor site, regional lymph node involvement, the presence or otherwise of distant metastatic spread, and the grade of CRC based on the degree of cell differentiation and cell growth rate, respectively. ‡The stage of each cancer was determined from the pathological diagnosis according to the TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours (seventh edition). §RIN, RNA integrity number for the isolated total RNA samples.